Navergar-se, o pequeno teatro de ser: a autoconsciência como método

Abstract

And what if we inverted it? "Suppose that everything, instead of being made of atoms, of matter, was made of consciousness. What would happen in this case?" (GOSWAMI, 1993, p. 26). What kind of science, culture, and education would we weave? This is the reflection that the present dissertation seeks to develop: "Navigating Oneself, The Small Theater of Being: Self-Consciousness as a Method." My objective, in reflecting on consciousness as the "weaver of all that exists," was to express the relationship between Being/Living and (Self)Knowing through the experience of the millenary science of Tantra Yoga, as proposed by Sarkar. This path engages in dialogue with H. Maturana’s biology of love, B. Nicolescu’s transdisciplinarity, and A. Goswami’s quantum physics—perspectives that do not separate life, society, politics, art, science, and spirituality from their academic productions. The object of this study, therefore, is not dissociated from the subject nor from life itself, as self-awareness has been observed as a research method for the human being who ventures to know themselves and the world. Thus, the effect of self-knowledge—simultaneously produced by and producing self-awareness - is analyzed in relation to the subject and their surroundings, in a recursive and eternal process of unveiling and co-creation. The systemic approach of this dissertation transformed its own outcome: the experience of savoring self-awareness - both generated by and generating selfknowledge - and its implications for emotion, which, according to Maturana, is the foundation of the social and of love. In this way, the work became a theater piece, where the interplay of relationships between the multidimensionality of being/living and the other (whether a subject or the environment) is expressed through characters in search of themselves.