Consciousness is the subjective experience of awareness — the felt quality of being, perceiving, and knowing. It encompasses everything from sensory perception and emotion to self-reflection and the capacity to witness one’s own thoughts. Across traditions, consciousness is explored as both the ground of all experience and the frontier of human evolution — from contemplative practice and meditation to the hard problem in neuroscience and philosophy of mind.

See also: Cosmic Consciousness - A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind, Kosmic Consiousness, Ken Wilber