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

Questions and Answers & exercises / 77
Wolinsky: What if all of these were concepts and were
made of consciousness and had nothing to do
with anything, then . . . ?
Bill: _____________(Silence).
Wolinsky: How has the consciousness prior to the I AM
body concept deceived itself?
Bill: Believing it was.
Wolinsky: And what if these were concepts of the consciousness
prior to I AM which have nothing to do
with anything, then . . . ?
Bill: _____________(Silence).
Wolinsky: This “my” consciousness concept, which looks
through the concept of the I AM body, how has
it deceived itself?
Bill: Believing it was the I AM body lens it was looking
through.
Wolinsky: And if the I AM body lens had nothing to do
with anything, then . . . ?
Bill: _____________(Long silence)_____________
Wolinsky: What is the concept called “my” consciousness,
which looks through the I AM lens unwilling to
communicate about?
Bill: That it is all just consciousness.
Wolinsky: Why would the concept called “my” consciousness,
which looks through the I AM body, be
unwilling to communicate about that?
Bill: Because if it knew it was just consciousness, there
would be no consciousness.