Consciousness is always going to be selective. When you get the other two, the sacred and the aesthetic, which are very closely related, you are partly standing off to see a whole. Consciousness is tending to focus in, whereas notions like the sacred and the beautiful tend to be looking for the larger, the whole. That is why I distrust consciousness as a prime guide.
Bateson, Gregory (1991). A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind. R. Donaldson, ed., Harper Collins, New York.
