The Carnival of Consciousness: Shabdaverse Volume 1

Most people have a static notion of consciousness-the blank slate on which matter paints pictures. But, in the Vedic tradition, consciousness moves-inside and outside, upward and downward, clockwise and anticlockwise, which creates rising or falling spiral trajectories, passing through higher or lower realms. As it moves, the consciousness takes the form of the things it attaches to, which becomes its memory. That memory pushes the consciousness to keep moving in the same path as in the past, but by its ability to select the six kinds of movements it can counter the push. The memory is the soul's inertia and the will is the soul's force, based on which an alternative theory of motion is created. This motion is like a person moving through a carnival of experiences, using its will to decide which booth it visits next.