The struggle is about semantic meanings. Strawberry fields? A field of strawberries or a metaphor for something remembered?
For Tolle, unconscious means unaware, not present, not conscious in the now, not having an internal watcher; and conscious seems to mean having an aware presence or watcher which transmutes the noise of the egoic mind into a study of the essence.
For him, the egoic mind is the problem; always occupied with past and future, with the pain body(pp 36/7) and noise of the past, and anxieties about the future. With externals. Not the music of time, but the destructive noise of the mechanics of mind.
For Tolle, unconscious means unaware, not present, not conscious in the now, not having an internal watcher; and conscious seems to mean having an aware presence or watcher which transmutes the noise of the egoic mind into a study of the essence.
For him, the egoic mind is the problem; always occupied with past and future, with the pain body(pp 36/7) and noise of the past, and anxieties about the future. With externals. Not the music of time, but the destructive noise of the mechanics of mind.
