Association Ontology
                                 Bodhi Tree
                                   1-24-97

Q:  You mentioned the One Light, where did It come from?

B:  It always is.  It did not come from anywhere, remember, again, Isness
only has one quality, Isness.  There is no before to Isness.  Isness has
never been not Isness.

Q.  But before awareness, it was dark.

B:  Again, this is an analogy.  Remember, when we say before and after,
these are only concept that exist within Isness.  There was never *truly a*
*before and after*. This is difficult to translate into your third density
reality domain.  Nevertheless, this is the best that can be done with your
language.

Q:  I understand non-lin...linearity somewhat.

B:  All right, all you have to do is learn how to pronounce it.

Q.:  The Light, I understand to be intelligence.

B: You can understand it that way. Although, more specifically, just to put
a more precise definition upon it, that is more relevant to your reality;
intelligence, although it can be used the way you are using it,
*intelligence is really more precisely* *the application of* *awareness*, not
awareness itself.  Consciousness is consciousness, awareness is awareness;
Intelligence is what you do with that awareness, the application thereof.
Although again, we understand we don't have to be that strict with the
definition, and if you want to say that it is simply intelligence we will
understand and acknowledge that idea.

Q:  What is the difference between consciousness and awareness?

B:  Yes, in a sense, again, it is the idea that there maybe consciousness
that can be aware in a variety of ways.  Although, *consciousness*, to some
degree, implies the idea of awareness, self-awareness, so on and so forth.
There may not even be a term for what you might call that *substance* that is
unaware, you understand?

Q:  OK.

B: So we, just in your language, translated it to Isness.  That would be
the term that would  best represent the idea of that substance you are
referring to, that once it became aware, is referred to as consciousness.
Does that make sense?

Q:  OK, yes, to some degree.

B: So Isness is simply like the fabric of existence itself. Consciousness
is when the fabric knows it is the fabric, and also immediately creates the
idea of reflective self-awareness that creates difference in the fabric.
In other words, awareness of the threads that make the fabric up.  Does
that make sense?

Q.  Yes.

B: So Isness, then, is awareness of itself as the fabric and then self-
reflective awareness of the threads that make up the fabric.  But, at the
same time, going back to Isness and understanding that every single thread
is *also the whole, the Isness.* Does that make sense?

Q:  OK, that makes some sense