Human consciousness depends on perception. Perception is the result of organizing sensation into meaningful patterns. Sensation is raw data, sufficient for animals because they thrive on instinct. Humans thrive on intuition and other like forms of consciousness, primarily imagination and dreams.

Perception is triadic. It requires 1. A Perceiver 2. That which is Perceived, and 3. The Perception itself. Without all three parts, a perception cannot exist. All relationships require three parts. We tend to think of two when thinking of relationships, but actually, relationships require three parts. You have the one, the other, and the relationship itself, the combination of the two. All human consciousness requires perception. All perception is triadic. We live in a relative universe where everything relates to everything else. If you take but one part away from the triadic equation, you cease to have a relationship and you cease to have a perception.

In ancient tantra, Hinduism, and yogic ideology, you have two forms of God consciousness, or samadhi, which is union with God consciousness: Nirvakalpa Samadhi and Savikalpa Samadhi. In Savikalpa Samadhi, the spiritual aspirant experiences a conscious union with God. The feeling is that "I am one with God". The aspirant is conscious of this wonderful vision and experiences much bliss. In Savikalpa Samadhi, the aspirant has merged so incredibly that he has no feeling of God or himself. He (or she) has utterly merged. In this state, the aspirant loses consciousness and cannot recall the experience and only knows it has happened because he or she experiences such a state of bliss afterward. In the first form of samadhi, the triadic state of consciousness remains. In the second state, the triad ceases to be. The triad enfolds and becomes a monad, a single unit, whereupon the aspirant ceases to have conscious awareness. He has gone beyond his conscious mind and reaped the blissful rewards of oneness with the Supreme.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it... How can you tell me that a tree fell in the forest? This is a trick question. The question presupposes the existence of the tree and thus begs the question. If no perception exists, no tree exists. Yet a perception does exist, inherent in the question. The presupposition itself implies existence, even if that existence is simply in the imagination of the mind that originally created the question. A more correct question would be "If nothing does

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