The Tesseract
Consciousness
चैतन्यमात्मा
The Self is Consciousness.
The Tesseract is a map for your spiritual journey. It's a teachable metaphor, using the geometric concept of a fourth-dimensional cube, to illustrate how consciousness evolves from raw awareness to enlightened unity.
This map is the core of the SolarPunk Sangha, a practical tool to guide us from a fragmented world toward a symbiotic future.
🔢 About the Tesseract
The seed of this metaphor was planted by Bruno della Chiesa in his 2010 paper, "Wanted: Tesseract." He proposed it as a unifying model for language, culture, and ethics in educational neuroscience.
We have expanded this seed into a full-spectrum framework. By viewing reality through the Tesseract's lens, we can see the very architecture of our awareness, empowering us to dissolve the boundaries of the self and act with non-dual awareness.
🔢 Geometry
The spatial dimensions that structures each theory along a perceivable 4-D axis.
This table analyzes the formula Consciousness + Object = Experience.
It follows a Systematic Phenomenological Evaluation which pursues; Internal logical consistency, contextual coherence, conceptual parsimony, explanatory power, and empirical adequacy.
Potential
The Primordial Bedrock - Pure Consciousness.
Know-why
The Real
Mind-at-large undifferentiated
Non-Dual (Turiya). Consciousness resting in itself, prior to subject-object split.
Nirguṇa Brahman - Pure, attributeless absolute
Nimeṣa (Unity) - Śiva-Śakti in perfect equilibrium
(Epistemlogical Boundary)
Conception - Unified field of the organism.
Universal Potentiality - Pre-conscious neural priming, undifferentiated information potential, pure consciousness state
"Neural Dark Matter" - the unmanifest potential in neural networks before activation patterns form.
Shunyata: Pure Potentiality. Experience of causality or "the ground of being." Not yet differentiated.
The Root Potential for Objects (The unmanifest seed of language/culture)
Neuronal Language
Neuronal Priming
Pre-Linguistic
Truth (Satchitananda)
Nihilistic Apathy ("Why bother?")
Reverent Potentiality
Dharmadhātu (Realm of Reality) - The ultimate ground beyond conception
Pure Awareness (Ālaya-vijñāna base) - Unmanifest ground
Ein Sof (The Infinite) - The "Nothingness" (Ayin) from which all things emerge
Deus Absconditus (The Hidden God) - God beyond all categories and concepts; the divine ground
Al-Haqiqa (The Ultimate Reality) - The essence of Allah beyond all attributes and forms; pure being beyond being
Point
The Sacred Ground - Bliss & Unified Being.
Information
The Empirical
First dissociation into individual perspectives
Identification with Sensation. Consciousness is completely absorbed in/defined by the immediate sensory object.
Avidyā (Ignorance) begins - Mistaken identification with sensory objects
Ābhāsa (Projection) - Initial self-expression
Single Cell - Totipotent zygote
Sensory Embodiment - Raw sensory processing, physiological responses, gatekeeper safety orientation
Sensory Observer - Raw data point processing
Pure Sensation. Unintegrated sensory flow. "Blooming, buzzing confusion."
Sensory Data Points (Phonemes, raw perceptions)
Phonemes
Facts/Perceptions
Orality
Basic survival orientation - "Is this safe/dangerous?"
Addiction to Sensation
Mindful Presence
Śūnyatā of Characteristics - No inherent nature in sensory data
Five Sense Consciousnesses - Raw perception without conceptualization
Assiah (The World of Action) - The physical, material universe perceived by the senses
Creation - The physical world and sensory experience
Al-Nasut (The Physical Realm) - The sensory world of creation; material existence and sensory perception
Line
Mind-Blueprint - Architecture for beliefs & ego.
Knowledge
Actual
Development of cognitive boundaries
Identification with the Thinking Mind. Consciousness believes it is its thoughts and concepts.
Adhyāsa (Superimposition) - False attribution of reality to concepts
Vikalpa (Conceptualization) - Mental formations
Embryogenesis & Gastrulation - Formation of primary germ layers. Body programming.
Conceptual Structuring - Pattern recognition activation, cognitive boundary formation, rule-based processing
Pattern Observer - Linear narrative construction
Meaning. Experience of connectedness, labels, and basic causality.
Patterns & Concepts (Morphemes, linear narratives)
Morphemes
Patterns
Literacy
Rule-based reality maintenance - "What are the rules?"
Dogmatic Fundamentalism
Curious Literacy
Śūnyatā of Substance - Concepts lack inherent existence
Manas (defiled mind) - Conceptual elaboration
Yetzirah (The World of Formation) & Hod (Splendor) - The realm of forms, patterns, and emotions
The Law - Rules, commandments, and moral structures
Al-Malakut (The Angelic Realm) - The realm of meanings, archetypes, and spiritual causation
Plane
The Foundations - Web of semantic associations.
Skills
Social Structures
Solidification of separate selfhood
Identification with a Role/Skill. Consciousness believes it is the "analyst," the "good citizen," the "skilled worker."
Saṃsāra intensifies - Deepening bondage through role identification
Ahaṃkāra (Ego-formation) - "I-maker" activity
Neuralation & CNS Development - Formation of the neural tube.
Systemic Integration - Abstract reasoning networks, skill embodiment, role-based identity consolidation
Systemic Observer - Abstract reasoning & role identity
Competence & Judgment. Experience of navigating abstract systems correctly/incorrectly.
Systems & Abstractions (Sentences, ideologies, social rules)
Sentences
Behaviors (Abstract)
Mechanization
Rule-based reality maintenance - "Who's breaking them?"
Bureaucratic Technocracy
Skillful Craftsmanship
Śūnyatā of Self-existence - Systems are empty of independent reality
Mano-vijñāna (mental consciousness) - Systemic thinking
Beriah & Gevurah (Judgment) & Netzach (Eternity) - The realm of archetypes and systemic power
The Ministry - Sacramental systems, theology, and communal practice
Al-Jabarut (The Divine Power Realm) - The realm of divine attributes and powers; systems of divine governance
Cube
Connected Infrastructure - Life force and habitus.
Know-how
Embodied Personality
Full individuation as apparent separate being
Identification with the Ego/Personality. Consciousness believes it is the embodied agent navigating its social world.
Jīva (Individual soul) - Consciousness trapped in illusion
Antaḥkaraṇa (Inner instrument) - Integrated personality
Organogenesis & Energetic Systems - Development of organs and vital systems.
Meaningful Agency - Integrated world-modeling, practical wisdom emergence, balanced code interaction
Integrated Observer - World-modeling & practical wisdom
Agency & Practical Wisdom (Phronesis). Experience of creatively acting within a complex cultural reality.
The Integrated Lifeworld (Habitus)
Utterances
Habitus (Bourdieu)
Electric
Integrated world-modeling with flexible boundaries
Exploitative Machiavellianism
Wise Phronesis
Great Emptiness (Mahāśūnyatā) - The lifeworld's lack of inherent nature
All eight (Yogachara) operating - Integrated but deluded consciousness
Beriah (The World of Creation) &Tiferet (Beauty) - The realm of the throne and the archangels
Indwelling of the Holy Spirit - Personal relationship with God; practical spiritual wisdom
Al-Lahut (The Divine Realm) - The realm of divine names and qualities; integrated spiritual awareness
Tesseract
The Ecopolis - The shared filtered dashboard of physical experience.
Savoir-Être
Meta-Reality
Beginning of re-association
Witness Consciousness (Sakshi). The first stage of dis-identification. Consciousness begins to recognize that it is not the objects (habitus, culture) but the space in which they arise.
Viveka-khyāti (Discriminative knowledge) - Gradual removal of ignorance
Pratyabhijñā (Recognition) - Remembering true nature
Birth, Infancy & Sensory-Motor Development - The body enters the 4D world. Senses calibrate. Brain stabilizes 3D world from 2D retinal images and sensory input.
Meta-Awareness Emergence - Ego dissolution experiences, neural network reconstitution, pioneer code activation
Meta-Observer - Witnessing reality architecture
Meta-Awareness (Ecosystemic). Experience of witnessing the previously invisible structures that shape the lifeworld (D3).
The Architecture of Reality Itself (Meta-patterns of language and culture, the material transactions with nature)
Metalinguistic Awareness
Metacultural Awareness
Digital
Meta-awareness, boundary transcendence
Cynical Relativism
Ecosystemic Responsibility
Emptiness of Emptiness - Seeing emptiness itself as empty
Turning of consciousnesses - Manas transforms into wisdom of equality
Beriah/Atzilut & Binah (Understanding) - The supernal mother, the realm of pure intellect and metaphysical understanding
Theoria (Divine Vision) - Contemplative awareness; seeing God in all things
Al-Insan al-Kamil (The Perfect Human) - The station of witnessing divine unity in multiplicity; metacognitive spiritual awareness
nD Spacetime
Indra's Net - The cosmic web of potentiality.
Metaphysics
Ultimate Truth
Fully associated while maintaining individuality
Non-Dual Realization (Turiya). Consciousness recognizes itself as the sole reality. The subject-object duality collapses. Consciousness + Itself = Itself.
Mokṣa (Liberation) - Transcendence of all manifestation
Svātantrya (Freedom) - Conscious participation
(Beyond Observer)
Childhood & Ego Formation - Development of a personal narrative. Samsara or Liberation.
Non-Dual Embodiment - Unity consciousness, whole-system coherence, code transcendence
"Collapse into Unity" - When all observer windows synchronize so completely that the hierarchical structure becomes transparent
Unity (Moksha). Experience of being the ultimate subject, the source of all objects. All objects are seen as modifications of the one Consciousness.
Consciousness Itself (Cit)
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Culture
Post-Media
Conscious participation in cosmic play
Delusional Certainty
Compassionate Unity
Suchness (Tathatā) - Reality as it is, beyond emptiness/form
Four Wisdoms fully manifest - Ālaya becomes mirror wisdom
Atzilut (The World of Emanation) & Keter (Crown) - The realm of pure emanation, where the individual soul realizes its non-dual unity with the Divine
Theosis/Deification - Union with God while maintaining personhood
Al-Fana fi Allah (Annihilation in God) - Complete union with the Divine while maintaining individual consciousness
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