Developing Awareness

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This paper discusses the ideal of being able to develop awareness of the world around oneself. It goes into detail about the factors that make this awareness possible. It discusses a willingness to subject oneself to new ideals and release internal beliefs about what it means to be conscious or aware. It looks into the need to forgo one's reliance on factual information and instead come to recognize the symbolism apparent in every day activity. Finally, the paper explores how one's own perceptions are biased and often rely on factual or idealized versions of what is real, versus what is perhaps, unreal.

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"Nabokov (2000) interestingly asserts that "common sense" reveals that we exist and reminds us of our existence, but is only a "brief crack of light between two extremities of darkness." Like Keller he asserts that true consciousness does not arise from mere experiences or perceptions of experiences alone. The author suggests that the collective conscious is often directed by rigid rules of society, and one have but reach out and tap into their own self and identity to awaken their conscious and perhaps begin to capture a glimmer of true awakening. Inner knowledge comes from perception that is not tainted by memory but rather open to new revelations that should not result from reflexive acts but rather new experiences. This is much as Keller would suggest, that mankind could raise his awareness or conscious if only he stopped relying on the obvious and instead takes a moment to explore that which is not obvious or that which is unusual and new."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cassirer, E. (1993). "Human culture." The Accommodating Reader. McGraw-Hill, Inc.
• Hawthorne, N. (1995). "Young Goodman Brown." The Accommodating Reader. The McGraw-Hill Companies.
• Jung, C.G. (2000) "The personal and collective unconscious." The Ideal Reader. The McGraw-Hill Companies.
• Keller, H. (1992). "Three days to see." The Accommodating Reader. McGraw-Hill, Inc.
• Nabokov, V. (2000). "The beginning of consciousness." The Ideal Reader. McGraw-Hill, Inc.

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