Consciousness : A Primer ( essays in search of their source) Tackles the knotty metaphysical issue behind the veils of creation. Everything that is manifest, from microbes to galaxies, is created with consciousness, that energy behind thought that stymies all investigators searching for a reason or an ultimate cause. Neither brain nor body nor non-local mind, it stuffs the multiverse with sentient beings and useful objects. More ancient than monism, more pervasive than light, it is the stager of mother nature, the hidden driver behind the rise and fall of civilisations and the orchestrator of the triumphs and catastrophes of evolution. Easier to appreciate in the paradises of the astral than here in the turgid density of the physical, it nevertheless is the powerhouse behind all creation. Dead humans learn to create little things, - a twig, a button, a bedroom. And if they are curious and conscientious, entire dwellings, public buildings, arboreteums and lakeside marinas. Returning humans, ready to reincarnate, are delicately reminded how to slot their spirits in welcoming wombs. Living humans are invited to pilot UFO's and are told to use their thoughts. The vehicles are sentient and thought responsive, as our computers and cars soon wil be. Such are the hints dropped carelessly by minor deities deciding that the time is ripe. This short volume of essays. leads the reader to experiences and understanding that cannot be denied, although the culture will approve if you do. If you suspect that reality is someow stage managed then here's where you discover your place on the team. The higher, more refined parts of the 'you that is here', the solar angels, the monads, the spirit guides and astral travellers, are blessed with varying degrees of this knowing. 'You', as the intrepid explorer in the antipodes of consciousness, left home base with only the basic survival skills in your knapsack. Eternal Life, More Adventures and You Are History supplied you with some extras, the ones that get lost in the bottom of your bag, maybe wet with rain and unreadable. This primer gives you the ground rules of creation that were sewn into the lining while you were making your farewells before the trauma of birth.