are built bit by bit. The sources are many and built up from the past to present. It’s true what Carroll and Jefferson Airplane said about feeding your head. Your body and spirit as well. You do have to keep ‘putting things in’, trying out different things and experiences. Awareness and consciousness are about expansion, growth. In those ways, one becomes ‘larger’ in Whitman’s sense.
Looking back, I’d have to say that my own trajectory started out as awareness, particularly in the early, formative years. But from adulthood on, my journey has been more about consciousness and consciousness expansion, the final stages of individual completion and fulfillment.