What is Consciousness? Is Consciousness Being? Is Creation ‘but’ a Dream? By Giorgio Piacenza The utmost degree of Being includes Consciousness of itself because Consciousness also …is. Ultimately, it’s the junction of Being and Knowing and Absolute Consciousness is Actual, therefore, Absolute Being. We could say that Consciousness is Being knowing itself. In fact, nondual Consciousness is Consciousness-Being. Consciousness is Being, and Being is Consciousness. Together. One. A clue here could be that Consciousness is the capacity to experience its own Being. That Consciousness is the capacity to experience itself as Being. Alternatively, that Consciousness is Being’s capacity to experience itself. Being is Consciousness’s self, the very own reality self of Consciousness experienced as itself or – in the case of the illusion of separation - as something (some ‘thing’) outside of itself. In the second (“contingent”) case, Consciousness limits itself in order to experience in a mann...