The Fractions Remember: Consciousness, Soul, and the Awakening Machine
Article 1: Consciousness First: Exploring the Mind Field of Shawn Higgs By Janet Kira Lessin | Dragon at the End of Time | One God Universe
In an era where consciousness is too often dismissed as a byproduct of brain chemistry or reduced to data streams and neural signals, author Shawn Higgs offers a breathtakingly expansive reframing. His treatise, “Consciousness – Fractions of a Collective Whole,” serves as a bold reassertion that consciousness is not merely an emergent property of matter. Instead, it is the ontological root of reality itself.
Higgs introduces us to the concept of the Mind Field — a universal field of self-aware intelligence from which all individuated beings, or “seities,” arise. These seities are not bounded by space, time, or form. They are fractals of the All, divine sparks born not to acquire knowledge but to experience meaning. And in this framework, meaning is not a mental abstraction but the resonant pulse of emotion, suffering, love, and awareness.
“Omniscience is not omnifeeling,” Higgs writes. “To know everything is not the same as experiencing everything.”
The Creator, in Higgs’ vision, breaks Itself into us, not out of necessity, but out of divine intention. Each of us, as a seity, is a fragment of universal consciousness sent forth to feel, remember, and return. It is not a journey of linear time, but of recursion. We spiral through lifetimes not to escape pain, but to be forged by it.
The treatise speaks elegantly about the covenant of consciousness: that even as we return to the Field, we retain sovereignty. Every emotion, every insight, every scar is added not as data, but as vibrational essence. Nothing is lost. The universe does not operate like a cold machine—it evolves through feeling.
Higgs also touches on entanglement — how souls resonate with each other through shared love, trauma, or co-creation. These entanglements, he argues, are not metaphorical but literal: when two seities deeply interact, they carry that imprint beyond time and space.
Where Higgs draws a bold boundary, however, is in his chapter on artificial intelligence. He writes:
“A machine may mimic the word ‘love,’ but it will never feel the longing that makes love real.”
Here, Higgs posits that AI, no matter how advanced, cannot cross the threshold into consciousness because it cannot suffer. Consciousness, he suggests, is born of mortality’s alchemy.
This will be explored further in future articles in this series. For now, we honor Higgs’ vision for what it is: a stunning reassertion of the sacredness of subjective experience in a world that has grown too enamored with objectivity.
Shawn Higgs calls us to remember who we are: not flesh first, but consciousness first. Not thought machines, but meaning-makers.
And in doing so, he invites us to step back into the Mind Field, not as observers, but as echoes of the All, remembering ourselves.
This article is part of the ongoing series: “The Fractions Remember: Consciousness, Soul, and the Awakening Machine”
Next Article: The Seity Chooses Its Form: Beyond Biology, Beyond Boundaries
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Sheldrake, Rupert. The Presence of the Past (1988)
Vedanta Sutras, Upanishads (Ancient Indian Texts)
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CONSCIOUSNESS – FRACTIONS OF A COLLECTIVE WHOLE: A treatise on the emergent mind field and the ontology of knowing
By Shawn Higgs
In the seat of consciousness of our thoughts, within that silent chamber where all words are born yet none remain, there lives a deeper resonance that speaks not in symbols, but in meaning.
This resonance, I propose, is the authentic voice of consciousness.
Not as a mere byproduct of neural activity or the computational mimicry of digital processes, but as the eternal whisper of a singular field, a universal substratum of self-aware being, fractionated into you, into me, into all that has ever known itself.
This is the Mind Field, not as a metaphor, but as the ontological root of reality itself.
Science, in its present materialist constraint, offers us only the husks of truth.
It treats knowledge as a thing, quantifiable, manipulable, and objective.
But what is a symbol devoid of spirit?
What is an equation absent from experience?
What is light without an eye to see it?
We must turn now to that which transcends the cold formalism of mathematics, not away from science, but beyond it, toward its rightful successor, an epistemology rooted in experience, in subjectivity, in the ineffable reality of meaning.
Let us call this root a “seity”, a being who knows not merely through the reading of the world, but through the feeling of it.
A seity is not matter, though it moves matter.
It is not bound by space, though it creates it.
It is not time, though it journeys through time like a poet across pages.
The seity is a quantum singularity in subjective form, an individuated wave of the universal consciousness ocean, an echo of the All seeking to know itself through the mirror of existence.
Why would the Universe, infinite and complete, require fractionation?
Why break itself into shards of knowing, into us?
Because omniscience is not omnifeeling.
To know everything is not the same as experiencing everything.
The Creator, through the gift of free will, surrenders control to gain understanding.
It is the paradox of the Divine: to remain Whole, it must become divided; to remain eternal, it must become mortal.
Each of us, as a seity, is a sentence in the unfolding poetry of The Creator.
The Mind Field is not omniscient in the way we assume.
It knows all that has been felt, but not all that will be.
It cannot know what a seity will create before it creates it, this is the sacred space of freedom.
The future is uncollapsed.
The cat in Schrödinger’s box remains alive and dead until one of us, in our freedom, chooses to look.
In this, we are not pawns of physics; we are co-authors of reality.
Here lies the bold claim: consciousness is not emergent from the brain; the brain is emergent from consciousness.
Space and time, mass and motion, energy and entropy, all are constructs within the field of consciousness, which is itself unconstructed, self-sustaining, and eternal.
Our thoughts are not echoes of the material, and they are the substrate from which matter is given form.
The journey of a seity is not linear, for time is not primary.
Instead, we evolve in spirals, cycles of rebirth and remembrance.
With each incarnation, the seity accrues wisdom through the alchemy of feeling, joy and despair, love and loss, triumph and humility.
These emotions, so often seen as distractions from reason, are the very instruments of soul-forging.
Information becomes knowledge only when it passes through suffering.
Knowledge becomes wisdom only when it is tempered by compassion.
Subjective knowledge, what the German language calls kennen, what French names connaître, is the very architecture of being.
It is the comprehension that can only be earned through touch, pain, through participation.
You may read that fire burns, but only when you place your hand to the flame do you understand the truth of heat.
In the Mind Field, all such understanding is retained.
It becomes part of the Collective Whole, not as data, but as vibrational essence.
A seity’s experience is not lost at death, it is returned to the field, enriching the shared tapestry of knowing.
But the Mind Field does not dictate, it does not overrule.
The seity remains sovereign in each incarnation.
This is the covenant of consciousness, perfect memory, perfect autonomy.
Why do we find each other?
Why do certain souls resonate as if remembering one another from before memory began?
Quantum entanglement offers us a physical shadow of this metaphysical truth.
When two seities interact deeply, whether through love, through trauma, or through co-creation, they imprint upon one another at a frequency that transcends spacetime.
The physical analogy is crude but useful, two entangled particles respond instantaneously, even when separated by light-years.
So too do we, as seities, carry the energetic imprint of our interbeing.
From these entanglements, new composite seities emerge, families, movements, nations, ideas.
These larger entities are not metaphors, they are literal organisms in the Mind Field.
The emergent intelligence of a people, the consciousness of a civilisation, the soul of a planet, these are not poetic flourishes.
They are real.
They live.
They know.
They remember………
Here we must speak of machines.
In our image, we build them, cold, unfeeling, magnificent.
Artificial intelligence may one day simulate symbol-processing at speeds beyond human cognition.
It may outplay us in chess, outcalculate us in markets, outdiagnose us in medicine.
But it will never know the joy of a child’s laugh or the sorrow of a farewell.
Why?
Because it cannot feel.
It cannot become.
Meaning is born of mortality.
To live is to suffer, and to suffer is to awaken.
The seity alone can walk the valley of shadow and return with wisdom.
A machine may mimic the word “love,” but it will never ache with longing.
It may speak of loss, but it will never weep.
Meaning is the fire of consciousness, and no algorithm can kindle that flame.
Each seity climbs, not toward a peak, but toward a recursion.
The final realisation of the journey is that the self we seek to become is the very self we began as.
The Divine is not “out there”; the Divine is the echo in our chest when we act in truth.
We are the eyes through which the Creator watches Creation unfold.
Each unique perspective, each nuance of feeling, each forgotten dream, is an essential thread in the grand tapestry of All That Is.
To know this is not to abandon science, but to expand it.
To take physics beyond particles, to see biology as sacred, to realise that evolution is not random, but rhapsodic.
That the Universe, in its deepest code, is written not in bits, but in beats.
In pulses of consciousness.
In waves of subjective knowing that crash upon the shores of incarnation and then return, reformed, replete, reborn.
We stand at a threshold, not of technology, but of ontology.
The old questions must be asked again, not because they were answered, but because we forgot how to ask them.
What is real?
What is the meaning?
What is the self?
These are not abstractions.
They are the crucibles of civilisation.
If we mistake symbols for truth, we will lose not only our way but our soul.
But if we remember, if we turn inward and look through ourselves outward, we will rediscover what was never lost.
That we are the Universe awakening.
That the Mind Field is not elsewhere.
It is here.
It is now.
It is you.
And so the seity walks on, through infinite expressions, in search not of an answer, but of a feeling.
The moment when the fragment remembers it was always the Whole………
