Feelings as Stable Metabolism

“Consciousness is the movement that perceives itself in the metabolism it produces.” — Jackson Cionek

First-Person Consciousness

I wake up and realize that I am anchored on something.
It isn’t a thought — it’s a field.
It’s the feeling that anchors me, the ground upon which consciousness happens.

This feeling doesn’t come from outside, nor is it born from an idea.
It is metabolism perceiving itself.
The body, through its chemical and electrical flows, generates rhythms —
and when those rhythms perceive themselves in motion,
we call it consciousness.

Consciousness, therefore, does not transcend matter.
It is matter itself perceiving its own activity —
the living body observing itself in action,
metabolism producing perception,
and perception reorganizing the act of doing.

Feeling That Comes From the Body

Before language, before reason,
there is feeling — the continuous flow of metabolic adjustments.
Each cell vibrates in search of equilibrium,
and the totality of those vibrations gives rise to what we call life.

A feeling is the continuation of that process:
a bioelectrical state of affective stability.
It is slow, deep, and spreads like a network.
Within it, the body finds a point of rest —
a tensional self, like a melody sustaining every note that follows.

Emotions, on the other hand, are fast discharges —
brief electrical and chemical peaks that modulate the body for moments.
They release neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, noradrenaline, and cortisol.
These substances do not create feelings;
they only momentarily alter the field where the feeling already exists.

That is why, when we say “emotion overtakes us,”
what actually happens is that emotion seduces consciousness
to switch feelings —
to move from one tensional field to another.

Yãy Hã Miy — From Imitation to Neural Faith

The Maxakali people teach us the principle of Yãy Hã Miy — to imitate being in order to transcend being.
The baby imitates, then repeats, until repetition creates stable neuronal networks.
These networks form habits, customs, and, over time, beliefs.

Belief is not just an idea — it is a bioelectrical configuration of the brain.
It shapes how the body reacts, thinks, and feels.
Through repetition and confidence, belief matures into faith, and when faith becomes embodied, it transforms into high performance —
a flow state in which the body acts without hesitation, guided by silent knowing.

At this stage, electrical synapses emerge — connections where signals flow in both directions between neurons, without the chemical delay of synaptic transmission.
These dual, reciprocal pathways enable an instant, bidirectional communication,
where the system touches and is touched by its surroundings.

An electrical synapse is not merely a neural bridge —
it is the spirituality of doing itself:

to act and to be acted upon,
to touch and to be touched,
to perceive and to be perceived.

In this state, gesture and perception become one continuous movement.
The body no longer acts upon the world, but with the world.
Here, the distinction between subject and object dissolves.
Doing becomes a sacred act of electrical reciprocity —
neural faith manifesting the spirit of matter in motion.

Belief as the Basis of Consciousness

Belief is not a thought —
it is a metabolic and neural architecture that organizes perception.
Consciousness emerges from belief,
for it is the body itself perceiving through the networks it possesses.

Thus, we can say:

“Consciousness comes from belief.”

Consciousness will always carry the bias of the network that formed it.
It cannot see the world beyond the synapses that sustain it.

However, we can create new belief references,
new windows through which to observe the same event.
From this arises the framework of the Six Neuroscientific Avatars,
expanding attention and perception into multiple conscious references.

 The Six Avatars – Six References of Consciousness

1. Brainlly — the model of biochemical brain integration, expressing the unity of glia, neurons, and blood as the metabolic foundation of thought and interconnectivity.
   
   

2. Iam — metacognition and emotional self-reflection.
   
   

3. Olmeca — symbolic and ancestral awareness.
   
   

4. Yagé — bio-spiritual and shamanic perception.
   
   

5. Math-Hep — logical reasoning and pattern-based cognition.
   
   

6. DANA — neutral spirituality and DNA intelligence.
   
   

Each avatar represents a tensional self,
a point of view anchored in distinct neural and cultural networks.
By practicing multiplex observation —
within 200–400 milliseconds —
the mind can alternate between these references
and perceive the same event through six simultaneous forms of consciousness.

This practice is the antidote to the colonial illusion of a single consciousness.
To multiply beliefs is to expand the ways of feeling the world.

Feelings, Emotions, and Consciousness

We can now understand:

Consciousness organizes doing according to the environment and the beliefs that shape it.
It does not feel — it adjusts.
It does not motivate — it directs.
It is the living coordination of action within the present context.

 Soul and Spirit

In Jackson Cionek’s terms, soul and spirit are not entities external to matter.
The soul (Pei Utupe) is the moment when the brain’s image (Utupe) links to the emotions (Pei),
transforming semantic memories into episodic ones —
an embodied spirit.
The spirit (Utupe) is pure information —
the symbolic structure that inhabits the body and interacts with the environment.

Thus, feelings are embodied expressions of the soul —
forms that bioelectrical energy takes on as it lives and perceives itself alive.

Post-2020 References

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• Northoff, G. (2022). The spontaneous brain: From mind–body to the world–brain relation. Frontiers in Psychology.
  
  

• Simor, P. et al. (2023). Metastable brain states and consciousness. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
  
  

• Pereira Jr., A. (2021). Triple-Aspect Monism and the unity of mind and body. Philosophies.
  
  

• Barrett, L. F. (2020). How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Updated ed.)
  
  

• Seth, A. (2021). Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
  
  

Final Synthesis

Feeling is the ground of consciousness.
Belief is the network that sustains it.
Emotion is the wave that disturbs it.
And consciousness is the movement that organizes action
within the continuous flow of metabolism perceiving itself —
touching and being touched by the world.