Consciousness is a Wave
What is humanity? How do we define it? Some would say by the duality of man and the battle between rational being and bestial delight. Others may say it's the evolution of mankind's capacity for love and affection, beauty and creativity. While the rest may simply chalk it up to a divine spark residing inside each of us known as the soul. For the Transcendental Ascensionist it is consciousness.
Consciousness is not a unique feature of existence. One of the issues the mythos of humanity has created again and again is assuming the experience of 'being human' is unique. While we are indeed unique organisms, we know biologically we are not all that different from the other creatures around us. In the same way, the defining characteristic of humanity need not be a sacred nonfungible quality, but rather our unique instance of it. No different than our hands being completely unique to our individual bodies, but a common characteristic of our species. Consciousness is no different. It is a unique instance of a general characteristic all life possesses in one form or another.
If we can answer the question, "what is humanity?" with 'consciousness' then it begs the question, what is consciousness? Consciousness is the expression of cumulative effects as cause. Well what the hell does that mean? It means consciousness is an expression of experiences as referent cause. Consciousness is expressed meaning. Consider the question, "What is sight?", and instead of trying to define what an eye does assess why sight is. Sight is a response to stimuli. Organic matter's adaption to a series of wavelengths. Interpreting these wavelengths allowed that organic matter to respond more accurately to its environment giving it an advantage in survival.
Consciousness is a response to an extra-dimensional signal emanating from the future. No different then the waves which emanate from the past to shape our physical surroundings in the present. The electromagnetic and light waves that shaped sight came from the past. The effect of a former cause. In the same way, the future transmits waves into the past that shape and enable consciousness. This transference through spacetime likely occurs via superluminal waves. Waves capable of transmitting information from a future state to a past state and facilitating the transfer of information among present states; what we consider the collective unconscious. These present effects produce new causations which propagate into future effects.
The evolved state of our bodies are the adaption to classical waves. Some would say, 'now wait, it's survival and mutation that creates evolution which formed our body', and they would be right. On a deeper note, waves; such as light and electromagnetism, shapes the primordial design of survival. They determine the state of the environment from which we successfully evolve. The medium that determines which adaptions survive. In this way, the signal from the future shapes the medium for our consciousness in the present. It is the 'why' we think, not the what or the how. While the mechanical process of thought and self-awareness is biochemical and interactive, the medium of consciousness is a wave.
Consciousness is a wave.