an experience of awareness w/o intentionality will be interpreted w/in a given mysticism and/or metaphysic both pre- and post-experientially
and it will be that mysticism and/or metaphysic that will tend to value, devalue, disvalue or even transvalue the experience
for some, then, it may affirm our personhood, while for others it could be depersonalizing
for some, while depersonalizing or even impersonal, it may remain an essentially human experience but could even become actually dehumanizing, again, depending on the metaphysical spin
inescapably, the christian anthropology radically affirms personhood and squares better, in fact, with consciousness as emergent within our evolutionary epistemology, and should be considered at great odds with those idealist monisms, which consider consciousness a primal reality and are truly not only depersonalizing but dehumanizing, essentially considering our ephemeral passage a whimsical cosmic epiphenomenon rather than, as scott peck more aptly put it, a cosmic boot camp, where we are learning how to love
we must be circumspect in defining consciousness and employ scientific, philosophical and theological rigor ... and this includes avoidingsilly notions regarding who it really is who is looking out through the windows of our eyes, witnessing reality from our unique vantage ... it is YOU