Consciousness and our perception of the world around us is nothing more than a construction of the mind. The mystery of what it means to exist ought to be a profound mystery to the Self that contemplates the truth. How is our experience of all that exists, true only to the Self that perceives its own reality?
The existence of a world, and lived-life in the world goes unquestioned to the minds of most who aimlessly live. Yet, to those who contemplate questions of significance in regards to being/existence, there emerges a profound fascination towards the world and the Self. Modern Philosophy begins with Decartes' "I think therefore I am" - a process of deconstructing all of existence to one's own conscious existence as a experiencing subject. The "I" emerges to be the foundation to all of what we experience, leaving the rest of the world to be less definite. The Self takes a leap of faith to state that the world around us definitely "exists" without doubt. But it is nothing more than a "leap" to claim that the Self "is" apart of a larger world. Without its own ability to "perceive" the world, there exists no world!
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