The reason we have such difficulty being with ourselves is that we have lost sight of our true essence; what I call love-consciousness.
But for Ferguson "it was a magical time, which indelibly impressed on my consciousness the sight of the hunting cheetah, the sound of Kikuyu women singing, the smell of the first rains and the taste of ripe mango".
And I've even been known to faint – that's to lose consciousness - at the sight of a needle.
To Lowell, man is clearly evil and a descendant of Cain, and Abel is the eternal forgotten victim, hustled away from sight and consciousness.
He ended his book, with his last labored breath, his last moments of sight and consciousness, with the word beheld -- "these two silver bows in supreme, serene, supernal beauty surpassed everything auroral I ever beheld.
An in-depth pictorial study of blind schoolchildren in Mexico, Look at me draws attention to (and distinctions between) the activity of sight and the consciousness of form.
All clinical functions of the brain have been lost and they will never resume no ability to breathe independently, no capacity for any consciousness, no awareness, no sensations (no sight, smell, hearing, taste, pain, or feeling), no thinking, no emotions, no acting, no brainstem reflexes, and no interaction/exchange of information with the environment.
Incendiary photographs of those human rights violations had already blazed through the 24-hour news cycles and social media, branding horrific sights in our collective consciousness.
So far has consciousness changed in 50 years that just the sight of signs of Jim Crow segregation in an opening gallery is chilling, with declarations of "White Only" or "For Colored" joined by one earlier sign announcing a slave auction.
"Because these weapons are buried underground, they're out of sight, they're out of consciousness, we don't think about them," director Smriti Keshari told VICE.
