*Have you ever wondered if there is some journey for us humans to take?*
*Have you ever wondered who you are?*
*How much do you really know yourself?*

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There is a so-called "spiritual" (consciousness) journey and search for truth through knowledge and understanding. When we search for truth, we also search to understand more of who we are; a search for answering the question *“who am I?”/“who are you?”*: to **know-thyself**.

We have several layers combined to make us who we are.

We all have a **unique individual body** as part of who we are. The body is the basic *primary substance* that exists in itself -- *physical, material*.

We also all have **consciousness functionalities and capacities** in common as part of who we are -- which we can also develop upon. Consciousness is the *secondary substance* -- *nonphysical, immaterial*. Some of who we are is in our conscious control, while some of it is unconscious or subconscious, with **drives** and **motivations** taking us in certain directions in life. We all have *thoughts, emotions* and *actions* as part of the functionality of who we are. 

Individually, we also all have an **ego-personality-identity construct** and **worldview** that is unique to our personal experience and knowledge attained -- *nonphysical, immaterial*, but more *epigenetically* formed from our *environment* in life.

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If you don't *examine yourself*, you don't *know yourself*, and you don't live an *examined life*. This involves the individual particular self we each are (ego-personality-identity), and the common universal deeper aspects of who we all are, the **consciousness, psyche, mind, self or so-called "soul" or "spirit"**. We have the general "spirit" of consciousness with the *capacity to learn*, and there is living by the "spirit", i.e. *morality*. 

**Morality** is the **"spirituality"** that matters, **morally** *acting* is the **"spiritually"** *activated* state that matters, and *being* more **moral** is the **"spiritual"** state of *being* that matters. 

The *“spirits”* within are the *“gods”* and *“deities”* that control us: our unconscious **drives** and **motivations**. These are the "unseen" forces within. The "gods" and "deities" of consciousness within us have been **externalized, objectified, reified, projected, personified** and **anthropomorphized** through **metaphor, analogy, symbolism, mythology, narratives** and **stories**, used to attempt to explain and make sense of aspects of ourselves and of reality itself. *Higher order consciousness* is the higher "God/Spirit" that can rule over the lower "gods/spirits" of our *lower order unconscious* aspect of being (our conditioning and automated responses). Go look at Ancient Egypt, Greek and Rome to understand how we expressed knowledge about the human condition (who we are) through gods and deities. Then the power of belief took symbolism as literal, further confusing consciousnesses. 

Humans invent many beliefs to try to explain what is going on. Some can be **validated** through being **demonstrated** and **verified** by **reflecting** aspects of reality. Yet many beliefs only exist in our *subjective imagination*, not *objective existence*. When we realize and admit we are wrong about many things we thought we knew, we can awaken from our **somnambulist state** of thinking we're deeply thinking, and thinking we know 'who awe are'. We think we know what we do -- what we're doing -- but most of it is conditioned through automatically and unconsciously reflecting the environment we are influenced by (other people, their behavior, etc.). We are largely thinking and behaving in **unthinking** ways, not really evaluating what we are truly doing.

*What we do* as we manifest our consciousness through action and behavior, is a part of *who we are*. If we don't know and understand the **conscious and unconscious drives and motivations** that have us think, feel and act in certain ways, then *do we truly know that much about ourselves*? No. We might know who we are as a unique individual ego-personality-identity construct that differs from others, but not the other aspects of what makes us who we are; the deeper parts of how we **function**.

Action and behavior is the end-result manifestation of who we are. Behavior shows others who we are. We can be fools or be wise in action. Knowing thyself involves knowing if our actions are *wise* or *foolish*. We have the capacity for *self-reflection, analysis, introspection and contemplation*. We can change our ways away from **foolish wrong-action towards** **wise right-action**.

Wisdom is doing something with what you know and understand. If you don't act on what you understand to be right, then you don't really understand the *responsibility* that comes with the knowledge and understanding of what is right to do. Changing ourselves or the world for the better requires being **responsible for our actions** and learning to *choose the right over the wrong*.

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> “To know and not to do, is not to know.”<br/>- Wang Yangming

What we do involves moral behavior. *Do we act rightly, or wrongly?* We have to make the choice based on our limited or deeper understanding.

**Consciousness** has **conscience** which deals with **moral living**. We have *consciousness* as the primary "spirit" (both higher "Spirit" and lower "spirits"), and then we have *conscience* to develop more moral understanding for how to live (the "spirit" of living right, good and true). The search for truth and the quest to know thyself more, will lead to the deeper care for moral truth and the understanding that we are beings that strive for moral living. The quest to know thyself leads to understanding the importance of morality and **actualizing** and **realizing** it to deeper degrees in our lives.

So then, *what's the purpose of human consciousness?* **To be more moral.** That's how we become *better, truer, realer* and *higher potential* versions of ourselves. That's how we evolve consciousness and humanity. That is all our purpose and goal. That is the potential power of consciousness we all have.

We have been doing this unconsciously for thousands of years. Go look at history, it's one continuing battle of people creating evil, creating good, and stopping evil to allow more good to manifest. We strive to **do better**, to be **free from harm** and the **oppression of immoral people** and their behavior. I think it's time for us to *put morality at the forefront* of our conscious awareness and strive to actualize more morality. *What do you think?*

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#### Thank you for your time and attention! I appreciate the knowledge reaching more people. Take care. Peace.