And the consciousness inside us is the infinite consciousness of the universe.
"You are not, in fact, the sinner or the saint; you're the infinite consciousness, whose destiny is to play an infinity of roles".
Perhaps what Professor Harris and the Eastern mystics mean is something akin to what Judaism teaches: that the destruction of the ego (a warped perception of the self) will free our minds (or souls) to be able to perceive the "universal mind" or "infinite consciousness" that we call God.
Furthermore, Advaita describes the real Brahman as an infinite, joyous consciousness (albeit a consciousness that has no objects or contents and is thus "empty").
His theory of infinite self-consciousness, derived from Hegel's account of subjective spirit, stressed rational autonomy and historical progress.
The Posaune, however, argued that the Spinozist moment, though necessary to Hegel's dialectic, was fully assimilated to infinite self-consciousness.
This was necessary because, as Hegel argued, particularity cannot be the criterion of theoretical or practical reason; rather, individuals must first internalize substance, as a principle of universality, as a stage in reaching infinite self-consciousness.
Written ironically as pietistic denunciations, Bauer's two texts attributed to Hegel a theory of infinite self-consciousness, in which the concept of substance and a transcendent absolute were necessary but self-annulling illusions.
Bauer used his central concept of infinite self-consciousness, a term taken from Hegel's theory of subjective spirit, to reconfigure the Hegelian absolute, bringing art and philosophy into close proximity, and excluding religion as a form of alienated reason, while recognising its past historical necessity.
Awake again in the hospital, he thinks of the strange, almost infinite, loss of consciousness he had experienced after his accident.
The primary act of everything within the infinite space of our consciousness.
