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Short Description A philosophical exploration of the nature and origin of presence. The text proposes that presence is not generated by the body but expresses itself through embodied experience, becoming fully operative when it acquires a neutral state that enables resonance with a universal field of awareness. Abstract This essay investigates the nature of presence within a framework composed of body, mind, consciousness, and presence. While consciousness is described as the cumulative synthesis of lived experience, presence is presented as the "one who is" who undergoes such experience through the embodied human condition. The work proposes that neutral presence represents a latent function that becomes operative only when identification and conditioning are suspended. In this state, presence may resonate with a universal informational field characterized by awareness. Ordinary intuitions are interpreted as partial manifestations of this connection, while stable resonance would allow a more continuous relationship with the field itself. The essay further explores the implications of such a model regarding birth, death, and continuity of existence. If neutral presence belongs fundamentally to the field of awareness rather than to the body, then bodily death would not necessarily imply its termination. Presence is therefore considered a principle capable of operating both within physical existence and within a more subtle energetic domain, making the question of continuity after death a consequence of its nature rather than a matter of belief.
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