What is Consciousness? What is Its Purpose? 

I don’t have words to express my gratitude for such a beautiful explanation, It will take me time to absorb the material but, ones you understand it’s a next step to awareness and self understanding At a time when humans are creating machines for mass destruction of mankind and aligning our race with the perished, this phenomenon is gold ♥️

this is extremely well made! far beyond what you could ask for on this topic to be found for free on RU-vid. Great work!

I was waiting for him to say "MR ANDER-son...."

"Let there be light" I believe this "light" is consciousness. The type that would exist in this realm of existence. The type that would make us capable to understand to a certain point, what 'love' and 'hatred' is in this dualistic reality (left, right, up, down, no bravery without danger, etc) and the type that would be able to obtain wisdom. "In Our image and likeness" Two persons (Adam and Eve) The joy of love is what existed before all things, in obviously deeper and stranger ways. But, joy of love nonetheless.

21.40 to 23.17 So true. As a life long learner, and a person who is always asking 'Why', I have become detached from seeking social approval and being judged by those around me, I really do not care what anyone thinks about me, I am what I am and I say how I feel. This liberation really gives one freedom in life, to live and critically think, like a child does. Incidentally I am a professional Kindergarten and primary school teacher, and believe me there is such a difference in children's inquiry at kindergarten level as opposed to P4, 5 and 6 (10, 11, 12 yr olds). This wonderful trait seems to become restrained from about 10 years old and occurs due to social conditioning of the perceived need to be liked and accepted by our peers. This is such a shame. I try to teach my students independent thinking, and just being oneself, and trusting ones instincts.

Consciousness is not in brain. It is self awareness. The brain is just like a frequency tuner. As in TV or radio stations.

I love the statement , "even though we don't know them, the answers to all the questions we will ever have already exist"

When A Genuine sense of WONDER and CURIOSITY become extinguished, we become dedicated to seeking the approval of others, and we give up INDEPENDENT LOGICAL INQUIRY or "CREATIVITY".... our CONCIOUSNESS become CONDITIONED... we lost our INNER CHILD. :(

I love all this stuff, I love all you responders, I will drink a beer for all of us seekers, be happy, be kind to each other, and we will see what happens...

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Consciousness is astounding! It’s so mysterious. I’m going through a spiritual awakening and I’m finding some very weird things happen in our reality that we’re completely unaware of until we really look.

What a beautiful documentary I am a grandmother with 5 beautiful grandchild their ages range from 8 years old to 20 years old. I will make sure they all watch this documentary.God Bless you. Liz from Australia Sydney

After long years of studies, all i know is that i know nothing.

Collective consciousness driven by a shared awareness of this design, using our individual and collective intuition, will help us see beyond.

Tip => play it at 1.25 and it sounds normal + you will get smarter faster ;-D

as a 13 yr old in 2020. this has got to be one of the greatest documentaries on consciousness ever. this video is well executed and conducted beautifully. can anyone share any other documentaries just like this one

This video is not only eye-opening but also mind-blowing. Really appreciate the effort of the creator, who ever you are, thank you.

I will be watching this video a few times, it definitely helped me clear up a lot of issues I've had

This is some fucking good editing... Whoever does that now... keep that guy!

Consciousness is experiencing itself through us.

This made me cry, I never cry. This is the truth that eludes almost everyone. The more selfless I have become the more I have been given responsibility and the more I have evolved. I have come to a point in time where I need to become enlightened and I cannot postpone it anymore.

This is one of the most profound, eye opening awakenings I believe I have delved in to. Listening to it over and over, I keep picking up new epiphanies that are awesome! Thank you for this! If this video doesn't give one a reality check, I don't know what will. Sure gave me a few! Outstanding!

talkshh - just let go of the past and choose to be happy no matter what comes your way. this might present a challenge given all the probabilities in one's lifetime...but that's the challenge of it all. someone once said "the secret of happiness is simply good health and a bad memory."

Absolutely lovely! Thank you so much for the depth and cohesiveness. Sometimes, as I am evolving, it's the strangest thing noticing myself somehow 'merging' with this Collective Mind that seems way smarter than my ego mind. It's all so fascinating!

Beautiful documentary. I wish I could take over the Australian TV networks and play it on repeat on every channel for a week.

Once I got past the twilight zone voice...must say, this is an amazingly well-made video. Thank you

Fantastic work guys. You continue to inspire and influence a generation in the best possible way. Thank you.

First premise is a red herring, the whole is neither hostile or friendly, it is whatever you interpret subjectively by your own experience. What about people who don't view this place as hostile or friendly? What if it just is? Look at the diversity of people, both friendly and hostile and every where between. And we just are.

Problem in observation comes from the fact that method used to have observation were intrusive and not passive in their nature. For example, if you are using electron microscope you are beaming energy pulses to collide with object and than we measure what reflected toward sensors.

This is quality content right here, can't imagine the work behind this. Thank you for doing this!

Consciousness is an eternal highly creative love energy experiencing itself in the polarity and the infinite possibilities and aspects of life.

"To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at." --Claude Monet

Thank you so kindly for all the hard work put into this video. I appreciated you sharing your intellectual known with us.

All consciousness is universal and belong to all of 'us' , 'your' ego is an illusion. Thats all:)

You're missing the system of motivation in the mind where the brain is "wired" to avoid both physical and psychological types of pain, or what is called on a lower level a negative sensation experienced in the mind. That greater negative sensation motivates the individual to a solution or positive sensation in the mind and manifests itself here in our reality. This system has always been there demonstrating this pattern and has shaped all things in the human and the very matrix in which we live. The book called The System of motivation Understanding by Reinhardt.

“The brain holds as many neurons as there are stars in the universe” Eastern Philosophy: Each person holds the universe within themselves.

The aesthetics and the visuals and the editing are astounding - the voice and the background sounds are a bit over the top.

This was the best video I've ever seen in my life !! I am so grateful . I am so aware even more .thank you and Many blessings to you ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

Love this kind of informational videos. Thanks to all people who made this I really apriciate the time you put in to make this video.

Drops of blood fall on the ground.. Galaxies far away drift in His mind The air tonight is thick with sorrow and anguish. And he cannot see through the spit in His eyes.. The cry of absolute innocence. “Father Forgive Them!”: The trembling hands of mercy.. The Healer carries our wounds within Himself The Alpha and Omega with thorns in His brow.. The I AM in human flesh, torn apart, to make sinners whole. O, suffering love! The world and it’s sin is in your gentle heart tonight! PASSION FIRE 🔥

All there is, is consciousness. All this effort and you missed the most fundamental truth of all. Energy is consciousness at a lower frequency of vibration and matter is energy at an even lower rate of vibration. There is only ONE CONSCIOUSNESS divided many times and the universe (or more accurately multi-verse) is a holographic playground for this ONE consciousness to explore.

you guys are becoming better and better at making documentaries

1:02:40 I love how you point out that the scarcity mindset makes you less intelligent AND lowers your IQ.

This was by far the best documentary I have seen on this topic. One which I will rewatch many times. Much appreciated, thank you for all your efforts in getting this valuable information to people. Go Bless

Generally good, but it's not a "childish" habit of seeking reward from others, it's a "childhood" habit, part inevitable (before individuation), but mostly reinforced by imposed social hierarchies. Approval of others as a reward is not inherently evil, but only when it is deliberately made to oppose - or endlessly protract - our process of individuation, and impairs our ongoing evaluation of self and environment. (As Sagan observed )

Now i understand why do ancient indian monks say evrything is illusion

I believe this is the most valuable thing I have ever watched. And, it is the first time I've ever said that. I will begin to adopt those principles as much and as quickly as is possible for me to do so. Thanks for the presentation. It was well done.

I'm in the process of my spiritual awakening!!! And it is so amazing!!!

AMAZING I NEED TO WATCH THIS REPEATEDLY TO TRY AND GRASP ALL ITS TRYING TO TELL ME, FASCINATING!

"We are the universe experiencing itself".

I am the spark of consciousness. I'm still learning.

Consciousness is not just extreme pleasure. Consciousness is the realization of immortality and the realization that everything is heaven. When you realize that, it's so good, it's infinitely good. It's not just good. It's good to the infinite degree. It's so much goodness that you can't contain it. your body can't hold it. Your entire body shakes and shudders in a cosmic orgasm of bliss. It's perfection. It's total peace. It's absolute love, that's truly consciousness.

One Absolute Continuum which is the singularity and the infinity and the paradox that emerges. one origin which continues itself as itself through itself into itself because of itself.

The space between atoms is empty. Correction: The space between atoms/subatomic particles is full of energy.

Life is purpose, purpose is consciousness, consciousness is life, life is consciousness, purpose is consciousness, purpose is life. Infinity is within the imagination so that no matter what's happening in our physical world, we have the best odds inside to project into survival and follow the path that we lay with the world around. Creation and experience leads to growth.

Watching this documentary just made me a better person. So many truths being told, mesmerizing...

This entire video is what I've been trying to explain to everyone for decades. Thank you so much for this, honestly, this video eloquently articulates my exact thoughts in a way I never could. We are the universe becoming aware of itself.

masterpiece

This is a beautiful production and I appreciate the intelligence and heart of its writers and producers. It's deeply thoughtful and heartfelt and of course, logical. For me though, it's still missing something. And that is a fuller consideration of the quantum mind or what I call the quantum self. While this video story seems to point out the strength of going beyond selfishness and to see the value of everyone within reality, it seems to be missing the the source intelligence behind it all. Perhaps the writers would call it logic. I don't disagree with that but it is so much more. I do personally know and have had extremely powerful journeys into inner awareness way beyond what is common. I've done this in the dreaming world, in paranormal experiences and with an inner journey to become the ONE MIND of all that is. That one mind experience i called my "Journey to Source" event. It was predicted for decades and was assisted by a deep surrender into the use powerful one time use of DMT to assist my inner realm travels. In this journey, my "self" was indeed destroyed and messed with over and over again until there was virtually nothing left of the former "me" save for what I later called my "homeopathic self." What I became aware of behind the story of the story of the story of me was the one, true version of me. The universe itself and more. It's a really long story short but there is the ONENESS self of all creation that is meshed within the "self" that human beings know. It's the one thing that can never be lost. The human self is simply a transient expression of the ONE MIND of god. The quantum you within that exists within the quantum information field is everywhere. So I would express many of this videos ideas in virtually the same way accept for the impetus behind it when it comes to what the core self could be; even though there is no core self in certain regards. We do not come from the stars. The stars come from us. The form of universe and all that is physical is emergent from consciousness. Consciousness is not magically emergent from form. If the self is not real, then the outer reality is not real. If the quantum realm is waves of potential influenced by thought, then the thought is what the particle form emerges from. Reality bends to belief. There is no one REAL world or universe out there, Rather, there are endless realities that are little more than the dreaming of a consciousness packet having the dream. When that packet of awareness expands itself into its ONENESS form, it is everywhere and no where. It is everyone and no one. It know everything and yet nothing. It is beyond space and time. It is the story beyond the story and beyond that one. What we are most addicted to is the idea of reality being "out there" that science can study and prove. The very first assumption of science from the beginning was the incorrect assumption. It's never really been tested. Only now is there some wavering in previously held ideals. All that said, this video comes to many of the same conclusion that I did on my own in my highly divergent inner quest for the highest coherence that I can imagine about the nature of consciousness and awareness. I've talked with god. I've been god. My life has predicted over and over from 2 days in advance to 4 decades in advance. I know what creation and humanity is doing here. And I hardly have anyone to tell by myself. It is a lonely affair. I've already been through the awakening stage of "the good of the collective" and seeing beyond the self. Now, I'm seeing beyond the illusory nature of reality itself. "All things are experientially real but they may not be what you think they are. But they are because of what you think." - ME

To put it bluntly, we are connected to the higher power of God through waves which could be sound. I think it happens in our sleep. The greatest strength is perfect sequences in decisions of task. The sequence is been taught forever -faith - hope - love. The driving force is hope for love. We think we lose love in relationships but do we really. Hope for love in which is love . Simple God!

My core drive is trying to understand why my core drive is trying to understand what my core drive is.

We are all spirits temporarily living in an physical body. Consciousness is nothing more than an interface between your spirit and the body it occupies. It uses the five senses of your physical body to interpret this 3D reality.

This was made 3 years ago. Imagine that.

Consciousness is undoubtedly a manifestation of our subjective realities. In essence consciousness cannot be measured or observed simply due to the fact that each and every one of us observes reality differently. This is the reason why we will never solve the mystery behind consciousness. Until consciousness can be proven to be an observable and measurable phenomenon through objective analysis, we will never be able to prove ones own existence. For how can you prove to me that you are alive if your existence can only be observed through my eyes?

I am consciousness. This life is something I am aware of. Nothing more. It is not me. Though I have played a part in how it has played out. It is not me. I am and will always be conscious. With or without this life.

"a unique series of coincidental probabilities occurred". Now there is a leap of faith!!

The premise of this video falls flat on its face, when you take into account the exteriorisation of consciousness. NDE’s as an example. If you shut down the brain, the feedback loop would also cease. Therefore experience via the senses would also no longer be fed into the system, hence the loop system fails and ceases to exist, putting aside the lifeless brain can no longer fire the neurons in the brain. However a great number of studies, have definitive proof that consciousness survives brain death or the cessation of electrical activity within the brain. The premise in this film does not allow for that occurrence. NDE’s are but only one example of exteriorisation of consciousness, there are many more. I wonder how many people viewing this film are aware of such studies.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. - Erwin Schrodinger

thanks for the disclaimer, this was very disturbing, gave me chills. Idk where you found all these visuals but its very well done too. I just dont think I can share it on facebook though, pretty sure people would not understand. but i found smth in it for myself

Love the info. Dont care for the voice or tone. Someone suggested doing it at a speed of 1.25 playback. Now its awesome

Thank you so much for taking the time making this video. Im very impressed. I have heard it all, but this information has has pushed my illusion out of the way for me to start moving forward. Cheers.

In this modern society, where profit seems to take precedence over the good for all ( all living things and also the ecosystem) I find it very uplifting indeed, to find information of this kind, compiled and produced, that is not about money. It is about the state of our society, and what we can do to be better people where harmony and wellbeing will at last prevail and not war, inner turmoil and personal or collective unhappiness. My "Thank you" will never be enough. P.S. I will share everywhere I can.

You packed in so much valuable information and presented it so clearly. Great job! Merci, mon frere!

It begins with a choice. So let it being. May peace prevail.

Your consciousness is your spirit, your mind is your soul, your brain is your interface with your vessel.

Just go with it... Too much thinking about this stuff will drive you mad and you will fail to enjoy what time you have here

Reality is the physical form of consciousness. The human body is a flesh and bone vehicle for the Spirit, an avatar for consciousness. We are all one in the same. Love always !

I found this documentary to be wonderfully thought-provoking. 'Nuff said.

💕💞The writer of this was in my head.💕❤💞 I just was finally able to hear somebody else say it calmly I usually get hung up on Earth and the condition it's in. I love this video.

Love the invitation to value logic. Logic and self-awareness lead me to doubt, though, the statement that there is no self that persists.

A few years ago I made a little video about what is consciousness. 'There's only one of us'. It will explain to you what is consciousness.

Very well made video and an interesting watch. Your video editing has become really good, Reese! Keep up the good work :) Regards from a long time follower that has watched your channel evolve since the beginning.

Thank you so much for all of the references and links in the description. I rarely see such detail and it is greatly appreciated. Terrific presentation. I don’t care what some people say about RU-vid. To me, it’s like beach combing after a big storm. There’s a lot of flotsam and jetsam, but there’s always the possibility of finding some real gems. This video and channel are a couple of those gems.

........getting old is getting myself to see smart things in myself from the past days weeks years . Love yourself is the best thing to do.....-----> and the moment comes to SHARE with all that wanna hear/ listen to it. We are here to Learn / to teach Teach and to Learn again more.

this is the most amazing video I watched to far! absolutely brilliant, brilliant, brilliant I wish it would be shown in schools

Congratulations Athene and all the team for an amazing selfless piece of work. I wonder if logic which right now debunks previous religions will itself become one. Would be ironic. I believe what Jesus Christ did at his time is what Athene is doing right now. Reincarnation? Thanks to this video i understood most religions derived from the best core value at the time, and when egoistic people find out how to profit of that organized group, then it becomes a religion. Is this cycle unstoppable? Maybe its the best way to advance? Do we have to send you gold in mail for this?

Indeed, a narcissistic culture =selfish selfie culture. Embarrassing behavior has become common by imitation.

Consciousness is all interwoven like fabric and we just woven in the fabric. This video is fasinating

Only the closed minded, uneducated, extremely religious individuals will disagree with what the core of everything will behold. The mind/s that do the research and live in this constant state of how and why, will forever surpass the people in a constant state of cognitive dissonance. This and "The Theory of Everything" will forever be the bible to change. From the inside-out, reality ripples when the right thought pattern is successfully executed without doubt. Make those thought pattens worth it for us all! Thank You Athene :)

Bravo! what an awesome documentary!!! Out of ALL the ones i have seen, this IS the best! this is how it was all supposed to be from the beginning...we are soooo lost! great job! thank you

I ask myself the same question everytime I read youtube comments.

The purpose of Consciousness is to know itself ....Through awareness consciousness know ltself as the finite mind. Consciousness is not a material thing.....

Well I hope our consciousness moves somewhere else after we expire🙏

lol 23:00 onwards describes societys consumerism in the best way ive heard so far

Loved the production and the narrator's voice. I love the science. Even though I take a more subjective approach to understanding my own awareness, I was able to "listen" through the differences of language and sentence structure to find that most of the videos science explanations matched my own conclusions that I would have shared in different ways. I basically loved it. That said, I found there to be several inconsistencies in logic which I'll explain a couple in a bit. But first, I want to share my own experience about an extreme journey into the essence of consciousness. Really long story short - my human consciousness was exploded apart thousands upon thousands of times and regathered again for the next repetition. It was a journey of choice that took my "human awareness" component out of the drivers seat. My awareness moved way past human thought and into, what I call QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS. Just as there is quantum information, there is also a consciousness that science has not yet reached. It is the ONE MIND of the oneness of all that is. I reached that one mind state. My human awareness traveled along for the ride to be witness to the experience and return to remember some of it. My human self became a homeopathic version of the former self. It had to be moved out of the way and released from its own bubble in order to see past it. In the ONE MIND state, I was everywhere and no where. I knew everything and nothing. I was everyone and no one. And it all made perfect sense. I became aware of many things as direct understanding. The human mind in its multiplicitous form, is but a subset of the ONE MIND of all that is. In every living being, there is the quantum biology within that can connect us to the quantum self where we're ready and willing. Infinite intelligence that is everywhere is the real you within that can't be found anywhere. You are both. It's a relationship of self. This is my true experience. Believe or not. VIDEO LOGIC INCONSISTENCY - I share this to widen the field of knowledge and/or flexibility of consideration. No judgement. 1. In the beginning, the greatest question is shared: Do we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe? Spot on. It is at the crux of everything. Later on it is shared that there is no reality "out there." Forgot exact words. Basically saying that it's all an inside job of consciousness. AND SO, MY QUESTION IS - If it's all an inside job then why does scientific mind continue to look at the notion the "out there" is the only REAL part. It's exactly opposite of that. The outside is the projection of consciousness. Scientific thought, as brilliant as it can sometimes be, makes a fundamental assumption at the very beginning of inquiry. And that is that truth is on the outside. But it never truly tested the opposite has it? Reality is more subjective than objective. There are 2 kinds of people in the world .... Kidding aside, my OTHER QUESTION OR POINT IS: When mind or awareness is only considered as because of the brain, is it not COMPLETELY cutoff from the rest of reality? In that context, I will never know you and you will not know me. Yes? So why is there this evident push in the video (inside you?) for the idealist view of unconditional giving as the course correction for humanity? If we are all islands, what chance is there of coming together to save ourselves? NONE. It simply is not the case. When we move our awareness beyond the human mind and begin recognizing our own quantum "oneness" connection to everything and everyone else (entanglement) then we will change our "SELF" definition from "little ole me" poor human to EVERYBODY! 2. I also seemed to sense inconsistency with the video's message around whether or not a human can change the course or direction of reality flow. Sometimes it said no; other times maybe. Here's the deal, as human awareness, we don't have free will. The only will there is a WILL that is more ultimate in a sense. It is the will of the universe(s), source, one mind, oneness and yes, god. Remember i was in this infinite mind state for a moment. It's really there. It's in everything. And to see it, I had to go beyond the story beyond the other story and way beyond all the rest of the stories to be open to it. It really is a quantum awareness void of matter and energy and even vibration. Anyway, so human's are sometimes given the illusion of free will. But ultimate control lies in quantum self. So what does this mean? The "human self" expression only REQUESTS reality based on it's belief systems. The SOURCE SELF is aware of everything and can at times provide the reality the human is looking for. But it's complicated because it is all layers or bubbles of fractalized, holographic fields of bubble consciousness. (That's just creative words to express what it felt like to journey through them. You could also include nanotube structures like those found in the body.) Here's a couple of my quotes that could be helpful to an open minded reader. "All things are experientially real but they may not be what you think that they are. They are however because of what you think." ... And another is - "Our only purpose if allow and follow our god given desires. And the universes's only purpose is to provide and fulfill them." Think beyond duality. Love is consciousness. It is unconditional. It is not necessarily "unconditional giving." You see, it only takes one awareness to save the entire universe. It does not take the "we" of humanity to come together to save Earth. Reality is different than that. When you stop trying to solve reality on the outside, you'll look to consciousness itself as the source of the projection of experiential reality. And by the way, neither time nor space are actually real either. Rules are only there to help an individual consciousness packet make sense of it's experience. And their reality changes when they change. "Be the change you seek in the world." We don't ALL live in the same world with 7.5 billion people. That's the game construct. You're logged in on your own with your own avatar and avatars of others. Each is in their own game. Move into your Quantum Source awareness and you become the ONE MIND that constructed the game; so to speak. You're both. Can you balance it? It stretches my mind to live with this inner knowing beyond understanding. But I think it's doable. Fundamentally, see the universe as a friendly place COMPLETELY. It may at first look like the ultimate carcisism. But there are layers of understanding. The video is correct on lower layers. It is not correct on "coming together" on higher layers. You don't yell at the mirror's reflections and ask it to change. Change yourself and the reflection changes. Your personal reality is all that is. Regardless of what it looks like. That reflection is you. So it makes sense to love every part of it. Whew. That's damned near my book. I better start writing it. Anyway, overall, I loved the video and hope to see more .... with a little more open mindedness. ;-)

I can relate to this video. I am awakened. and Free.. only when I walked out to the Fake world.. or material World.. I pity those whose still asleep.. I wish I can do better for them but at the same time I needed to protect myself, and the end of the day.. I get sad and exhausted from the outside World. Thanks for sharing.. I also watched HUMAN.. That's really awakening.. LOVE. Let's spread Love and Kindness..

1,25 speed. Best invention evolution ever made.

Light does not change from a wave to a particle when we observe it, it is always a wave but when we look its our brain decodes it as a particle but nothing changes except what our little computer needs to do with the info

This documentary is even better than memes.Thanks for making us aware and putting so much effort into this, Athene.

BANGER!!! I watched "Athene's Theory of Everything" about 10 years ago. I remember getting goosebumps from watching it. I realized that I should come back to it. After watching it again last night I figured that I needed to see this. Very important videos to watch and understand.