Consciousness, much less self-consciousness, cannot be explained by any theory of mechanistic electronic association or materialistic energy phenomena. [1]
Self-consciousness consists in intellectual awareness of personality actuality; it includes the ability to recognize the reality of other personalities. Connotes recognition of the actuality of mind ministration and the realization of relative independence of creative and determinative free will. [2] One is free to choose and act only within the realm of one’s consciousness. [3]
Self-consciousness is in essence a communal consciousness: God and man, Father and son, Creator and creature. In human self-consciousness four universe-reality realizations are latent and inherent: [4]
The endowment of mind even in impersonal beings qualifies them to think and endows them with consciousness despite the total absence of personality. [5] The evolutionary type of knowledge is but the accumulation of protoplasmic memory material; this is the most primitive form of creature consciousness. [6]
Mind is not inherent in energy; energy is receptive and responsive to mind; mind can be superimposed upon energy, but consciousness is not inherent in the purely material level. [7] Mortal consciousness proceeds from the fact, to the meaning, and then to the value. [8]
In the mortal experience the human intellect resides in the rhythmic pulsations of the adjutant mind-spirits and effects its decisions within the arena produced by encircuitment within this ministry. [9] Human consciousness rests gently upon the electrochemical mechanism below and delicately touches the spirit-morontia energy system above. [10]
And even as he is this living way of ascension from the self to God, so is the Supreme the living way from finite consciousness to transcendence of consciousness, even to the insight of absonity. [11] We should trust all matters of mind beyond the dead level of consciousness to the custody of the Adjusters. [12]
There is a vast body of essential spiritual knowledge, truth indispensable to high spiritual attainment, which cannot be consciously received; self-consciousness would effectively jeopardize the certainty of reception. [13] Man’s own personality awareness, self-consciousness, is also directly dependent on this very fact of innate other-awareness. [14] Self-consciousness, in and of itself, is not the soul. [15]
See also: UB 16:9.