How can we deal with the rapidly increasing pace and complexity of
life, fear of terrorism and the threatening state of world affairs,
climate breakdown, the confusions of personal relationships-without
succumbing to stress, depression and illness? Halliday provides a
way to assimilate the shocks of life experiences, so that we might
live a more balanced life. The way to achieve this is through
reconnecting with the centre of our own being, our consciousness.
Halliday sets out not only the nature of this consciousness, but
also its relation to the world of phenomena, to the nature of
being, and in particular, to mankind. He begins by examining the
meaning of terms such as sentience, consciousness and awareness.
They are to some degree interchangeable and refer to, `That in and
by which we know what we know, and that we know.' If we ask
ourselves what this statement means, we can only say that, `We know
what we mean. Consciousness is its own evidence', and thus we
cannot indicate what we mean by one of these consciousness-related
words, `without appealing to that in us, which corresponds with
their significance, that is, to that in us which knows that it
knows'. Halliday sees a complex structure such as the brain, as `a
vehicle for the expression of the complex processes of an [already
existing] sentience'. He posits that the ultimate source and origin
of our being resides in an absolute field of sentience, and states
that the true nature of the self is `consciousness itself'. But, as
beings with physical bodies, we are tyrannised by the limitations
of our sense organs; by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance
of pain, by emotional charges in the records of our experiences, so
that we often behave in a reactive manner-as if we were no more
than animals with no free choice. But, if we remember the nature of
our true self, and our source in consciousness, we can free
ourselves from this enslavement and become human, that is, capable
of free choice and action.
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