The method employed by most early writers in observing consciousness was introspection looking within one's own mind to discover the laws of its operation.
Hence, the two truths are posited in relation to a single entity by way of the perspectives of the observing consciousness.
All of these scientists, echoing Einstein, end up saying in one way or another that nothing is fixed until the mind turns its observing consciousness on the matter.
The problem is that there's no way to observe consciousness directly.
Whenever one actually remembers having seen or heard, or learned, something, he includes in this act (as we have already observed) the consciousness of 'formerly'; and the distinction of 'former' and 'latter' is a distinction in time.
In the mid-1980s MKP was created over a kitchen table in Milwaukee by three friends, a teacher, an ex-Marine, and a psychotherapist who, having observed feminist "consciousness raising," wondered whether something could be done for men.
It was hard to concentrate at first, as anyone who has tried meditating knows: it requires toleration for the repetitive, inane — often boring — thoughts that float through the self-observing consciousness.
Writing from Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1972, he observed: "Mercifully, political consciousness seems to have diminished, so they [the students] won't be going on strike all the time". The fact is that, throughout his life, Ousby was thoroughly apolitical.
The GCS has been widely adopted as a simple method to quantitatively express the clinically observed features of consciousness [43].
And still he observes that "general consciousness has changed" in his time, fundamentally for the better.
Just like examining our body in front of the mirror, our consciousness observes our physical presence and it's able to heal and nourish it.
