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NOUS AND SCION

At the Heart of the Soul

Such that selfhood refers to soul, consciousness and awareness refer to heart and eye (respectively); and such that selfhood applies to consciousness and awareness (as soul applies to heart and eye); thus we derive self-consciousness and self-awareness. But such that the self may yet be unconscious, we might also say that the heart has no eye.

In that self-consciousness might lead to conscious-awareness by way of self- awareness (an awareness of awareness); as such, self-conscious-awareness would apply an eye to the heart (a nous) through an awareness of (and a subsequent filtering-out of) self-consciousness.

Thus: Nous would refer to a type of consciousness that cannot be reasoned (as such the process of its inception neither follows the arrows from self to self-consciousness nor from self-consciousness to self-awareness or conscious-awareness). As well, it is not rationalized from an ‘existential’ context (as to consciousness without selfhood).

Rather, the nous actualizes as pure awareness (self-awareness and conscious-awareness minus self-consciousness) BUT in the form of an aware self (the Scion, so named).*

*scion is generally defined as a descendent or heir