Chapter II: 32

A RELATIVE CONCEPT OF CONSCIOUSNESS: AN ANALYSIS OF
CONSCIOUSNESS IN ITS ETHNIC ORIGIN

The Newtonian system assumes an unqualified absolute and
fails to take account of factors operating within the larger
system in which it is itself an element--In the sphere of
psychic phenomena a similar system of absolutism dominates our
presumably conscious world--Analysis of our judgments reveals
the assumption that the position intrinsic to the observer
is all-inclusive and authentic--But our world of impressions
is artificial and reflects the artificial systematization
that fails to include our own organisms--This autocratic
interpretation of life is based on a bidimensional or image
system which in its arbitrary and personal evaluation distorts
the universe of reality--Normality is consensus comprising the
personal absolute vested in the unconscious of the collective
mind--Need to replace pictorial mode by organic coalescence
in common affectivity--Personal systems of men, single and
collective, are but relative with respect to an organic
societal consciousness--Concept of relativity of consciousness
abrogates absolute standard and embraces dimensional element of
the system, individual and social, of which we ourselves are a
component part--Transition from bidimensional (contemplation of
aspect) to tridimensional (participation in function) affords
basis for measuring deflections of personality, socially as
well as individually.