Consciousness

A Natural Survival Mechanism

What is Consciousness?
Consciousness is not tangible, measurable, or visible. It is a capacity — a natural survival mechanism. Every living organism on our planet has its own consciousness that enables it to survive, often in ways we as humans cannot understand, but which have evolved over millions of years.

The path to understanding consciousness has always been reasoned from an unconscious perspective and can therefore never be truth. It is always guesswork. We evolve, everything evolves, but consciousness does not change — because it is nothing. It is not a substance that can transform. It is a capacity that moves along with its user.

The Four Natural Capacities

1. Instinct — the alarm bell
   Instinct signals uninfluenced perception in the moment. It is the original alarm system that detects danger, opportunities, and needs.
2. Intuition — the observer and truth filter
   Intuition is the original clairvoyant capacity that perceives and filters what is true. It is the energetic pinnacle that connects us with direct knowledge.
3. Consciousness — the processing process
   Consciousness is the natural process of data processing based on the first two. It contains no data, no memory, no experiences, but it does process — directly, in real-time, in the moment. It responds to experience as it presents itself.
4. Wisdom/Unbounded Logic — reveals itself
   Wisdom is unbounded logic that reveals itself when untruth is gone. It works together with intuition to bring truth to the surface. With the right information and questioning, the problem itself shows the solution. Wisdom does not need to be constructed — it is already there, hidden beneath the layers of the DMN.
5. The Mind — sender and receiver
   The mind has exclusively the function of sender and receiver of sensory information. Because it functions clairsensory, there is naturally a high sensitivity to energy and frequencies. The mind receives and transmits, but does not process — that is the
   task of consciousness. In animals, this system functions naturally and uninfluenced. Sometimes it is hard and deadly, but it usually runs as it is meant to function. In humans, this process is disturbed.
6. The Disturber: the Default Mode Network
   We are the only beings with a fully evolved and developed Default Mode Network (DMN) — the brain network that is constantly active, tells stories, creates an ‘I’, thinks about the past, and worries about the future. This DMN is the unnatural intervention from within. It places a layer over reality and cuts us off from pure, functional consciousness. We think that all that thinking makes us more conscious, but it is precisely the blockade. Almost all scientific knowledge about consciousness has been discovered based on DMN-influenced thinking. We have studied the illusion and called it science. We
   measure DMN activity and call it consciousness, while real consciousness is unmeasurable and stays out of sight.
7. The Cycle of Generations
   Every generation has this natural consciousness taken away again. A baby is born with natural consciousness still relatively intact — pure, direct, responsive. There is no DMN yet.
   But during childhood the DMN gradually develops, and this process has accelerated exponentially over recent centuries. Whereas a few centuries ago little could linger in the mind, children are now constantly bombarded with stimuli: screens from babyhood, enormous amounts of information, expectations, rules, systems.
   The mind becomes fuller and fuller with things that can linger: worries, traumas, expectations, comparisons, fears, ambitions, concepts. Hence all mental suffering and personality disorders.
   Parents who are fully in their own DMN raise children. Teachers who are themselves intervened, teach. Generation after generation, the natural consciousness is covered, suppressed, replaced by that thinking layer. And we call this ‘development’, ‘civilization’, ‘progress’.
8. Consciousness at the Beginning and End of Life
   At birth: Pure consciousness is visible. A baby is fully present. Direct. No story, no ‘I’, just being.
   At the end: The DMN begins to break down. With dementia, all the accumulated clutter disappears. On a sickbed, someone often becomes quieter, simpler. At the end, consciousness is simply there again — pure, without the layer. People sometimes become remarkably clear and peaceful just before death.
9. The circle is complete: born in consciousness → DMN builds up → lives in the chaos of the DMN → DMN breaks down → dies in consciousness. Coma, Near-Death Experiences, and Anesthesia
   In the comatose state, the DMN is inactive. No stories, no ‘I’, no thought processes.
   But pure consciousness is simply there — present, functioning. People sometimes report after coma that they heard everything, were present, understood things.
   Near-death experiences:
   People who are clinically dead — no measurable brain activity, no DMN — often report the clearest, most intense experiences of their lives. Many say: ‘I was more conscious than ever before.’
   Anesthesia:
   Complete narcosis shuts down the DMN. Medically speaking, ‘unconscious’. But some patients still report awareness during operations — they were there.
   The entire medical concept of ‘consciousness’ is actually DMN activity. We don’t even register real consciousness, because it is nothing measurable.
10. Whose Baggage Is It?
    All the baggage you carry — traumas, negative thought patterns, fears, stories about who you should be — comes from outside. From upbringing, parents, school, systems, media, culture.
    A baby does not have this. It was pumped in by others who were already full of their own DMN junk and passed it on.
    Even what you later add yourself — your own thoughts, reactions, conclusions — is indirectly influenced. They are thoughts that arise in reaction to, shaped by, or in resistance to that first baggage. Conditionings, belief systems that you believe because your parents also believe. Actually, EVERYTHING in the DMN is inauthentic.
    The baggage is not yours. The authentic self is pure consciousness — without all those layers.
11. The Foundation of All Fear
    All conditionings — traffic, studying, earning money, eating healthy, following rules — stem from one basic fear: fear of death.
    And therein lies the great paradox: consciousness IS the natural survival mechanism. It is meant to prevent death, to survive. But we have put that fear of death into the DMN.
    We no longer live from directly functioning consciousness that responds to what IS NOW, but from constant future-oriented fear of what could happen.
    Animals are not aware of the meaning of death. They have no concept, no story about it. They respond to immediate danger in the moment — instinct says ‘danger’, consciousness responds, they run. But after? A gazelle that just escaped a lion stands calmly grazing five minutes later. No trauma, no ‘what if that lion comes
    back?’. Animals do not live IN fear. They respond TO danger.But humans have made death into a concept. A story. Something to think about, to be afraid of — not only in the moment of immediate danger, but constantly, always, in the background. That conceptual fear of death is pure DMN activity.
    And that permanent fear we press into our children from day one: ‘Be careful!’ means ‘you could die’. ‘Study hard!’ means ‘otherwise you won’t be able to survive later’. We do not train children to trust instinct and intuition in immediate danger, but to always be afraid of what might happen. We replace the natural survival mechanism with a
    fear system.
12. The Solution: Letting Go
    Every filling of the DMN by the outside world creates the blockade. What needs to happen during life to regain your consciousness is exclusively: letting go.
    Not processing. Not transforming. Not understanding. Not analyzing. Simply letting go.
    The entire ‘consciousness industry’ says: ‘You must process your traumas, convert your negative thoughts into positive ones, understand your triggers.’ But that is all DMN activity. You are trying to clean the DMN by using the DMN. It is an endless loop that lasts a lifetime and often has no desired result.
    The truth lies exclusively in an event at the moment of perception. Consciousness perceives the moment — therein lies the truth. It responds. And then it lets go. No storage, no clinging. Next moment, new perception, new truth.
    If you do that — live from that direct perception without holding on — then you are functioning as consciousness is meant to function. If you let go of the baggage that was never yours anyway, instinct and intuition regain the space to function.
    Consciousness can then work again as it is meant to.
13. The Illusion of Frequency-Raising Devices
    People often try to reach consciousness through external means: crystals, frequency-raising devices, binaural beats, energetic tools. The idea is that if the frequency is raised, consciousness is reached.
    The mind is indeed naturally highly sensitive to frequencies and energy. As sender and receiver of sensory information, it can certainly perceive these elevated frequencies.
    But as long as the DMN remains active, it makes no difference. The information may enter through the mind, but the DMN filters, interprets, and disrupts it — so it does not reach pure consciousness.
    It is like tuning a radio to a higher frequency while there is a wall between the radio and the transmitter. All devices are useless as long as you do not remove the blockade. First deactivate the DMN, then the reception can be pure.
14. The Metaphor of the Gift
    Imagine: at birth you receive a beautiful gift from life itself. It is your consciousness — pure, functional, perfectly attuned to your survival.As a toddler you may become a bit annoying, as children do. And then your parents take the gift away. ‘You may only have it back when you show you have earned it,’ they say. ‘First do this, believe that, behave this way, achieve that.’
    You grow up, trying to earn the gift back. You do what is expected of you. You follow the rules. You adapt. But you don’t get the gift back — because the conditions keep changing.
    Meanwhile you have forgotten that the gift was ever yours. You think you have to earn it, that you are not ready yet, not good enough yet.
    But the truth is: the gift was always yours. You don’t need to earn it. You only need to recognize that all those conditions, expectations, and demands — they are not yours. They were imposed from outside.
    The gift is waiting. You only need to reach out and take it back. It was never really gone — it was only covered by layers of what others said you had to be.
15. In Conclusion
    We are the least conscious in the universe while we think we are the most conscious. We have lost natural consciousness.
    The animal world shows that life without an active DMN is perfectly possible. Animals function fine — surviving, eating, reproducing, navigating complex situations. Consciousness is simply directly at work in them. For humans, deactivation of the DMN would not be ‘unlivable’ — it would actually be a return to how consciousness is meant to function. As it always did, for millions of years of evolution.
    Originally we lived from instinct and intuition. These were very strongly developed — energetic pinnacles that are suppressed from birth and have not been able to fully unfold in this life. It is time to take them back.

Mart Wijn February 2026

Independent Consciousness Researcher & Unbounded Logic Practitioner