For the” trained ” and ” educated “atheistic persons who have accepted subjective speculations as fact based sciences , we tell them to look again . One who follows neurons firing in a brain and proceeds to call it  consciousness , and the only explanation acceptable ,  just  because their scientific Prof . told them so , are selling themselves scientifically short . They have been fleeced , their logic and intelligence have been stolen. Stolen by “teachers ” who parrot scientific materialism as fact based sciences because they are paid to do so . Whilst at the same time the better part of their logical abilities are drowning in the narratives of the Darwinian primordial soup , once you’re in that primordial slime , it sticks like glue to the mind and body , almost impossible to shift , ask Dawkins . Simply blindly accepting subjective opinions as fact based sciences is realistically called cheating sciences.
Insights, intuitive capacities,  and consciousness taught  from the dualistic platform , ie . as separate energies , have a greater place in sciences.  For those who can climb out the primordial slime , which can  fixate them and trap them in the world of atoms , elements and compounds , and within their own particular and individually tailored space time continuum….. Its a chance for freedom from Darwinian dogma ,they can free themselves or  lose themselves in the many possibilities of quantum uncertainty as described by Niels Bohr in the Copenhagen agreement.

Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami on consciousness.

“Indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur indriyebhyaḥ paraṁ manaḥ, manasas tu parā buddhir [Bg. 3.42].

[The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and he [the soul] is even higher than the intelligence.]

So there are different platforms and status of consciousness. Bodily consciousness means sensual consciousness. Above that, there is mental consciousness, speculative, philosophical, and poetic. Above that, intellectual consciousness. And Kṛṣṇa consciousness—above intellectual consciousness.”

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