You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

ealizing death / 157
Wolinsky: Tell me another way the concept called “my”
consciousness deceives itself.
Student: Well, it deceives itself into believing that there
is a distinction between consciousnesses.
Wolinsky: Why would it do that?
Student: So that it could experience itself as existing.
Wolinsky: So if the concept called “existence and non-existence,”
even the concept called “soul” so that it
could experience itself as a concept called existing,
if all of those were made of the same consciousness,
which had nothing to do with anything, including
the one that was aware of all of this, then . . . ?
Student: Nothing.
Wolinsky: How are “you” doing?
Student: It was like okay. It’s all just an elaborate complex
survival thing.
Wolinsky: If the concept called “my” consciousness was
just condensed consciousness and had nothing
to do with anything, then . . . ?
Student: _______Blank_______
Wolinsky: If the concept of consciousness condensed down
and formed a concept called “my” consciousness
and it believed this whole thing, what could this
concept called “my” consciousness not want to
communicate about?
Student: The psychic I saw imagines this consciousness
as separate from this consciousness, is separate
from that consciousness; then the psychic had an
elaborate world of ideas about this consciousness
existing after death and communicating with this