Karen Armstrong's Homo Religiosus: The State Of Exerciousity

Individuals’ consciousness is a large programming, while the behavior can be one of its outputs or one of its inputs. That is, the awareness determines the behavior, but the behavior just influences on the awareness to make it adjust to the situation. In the other hand, behaving is a way for individuals to learn skills or to memory concepts. In the course of practicing and acting out the concept, their consciousness keeps noticing new information. However, occasionally they do not interfere each other. For instance, Individuals retract hand immediately after they touch hot water, due to conditioned reflex without consciousness. Karen Armstrong, in his essay “Homo Religiosus”, discusses different religious tenets of Christian, Hinduism, and Confucius and how they …show more content…
The consciousness can have a great impact on the behavior under two circumstances, which are encountering events that influence deeply on individuals’ mind, as well as the relative behavior and when individuals’ consciousness gradually alters their behaviors. Meanwhile, the behavior can also guide the consciousness into a different mode of consciousness.
Experiences that have a great impact on individuals’ mind and feelings can lead to changes in their consciousness and then their behavior will alter correspondingly. The definition of consciousness is the state of awareness, which means that individuals through perception of outside world and thinking process generate an understanding or cognition of the objective. Many events that happen in the individuals’ life can bring great changes in their view of their life and the world. In extreme case, these events are frustrating, painful, and desperate, driving individuals to extreme emotion and thoughts beyond their usual mentality. Their philosophy of life, value, or world varies dramatically. For instance, experiencing violence and misfortune reverses individuals’ mind and behavior. Siebert describes how elephants