Is There a Way to Think About Consciousness?

I was always persuaded against thinking because thinking tends to have a bad rap in the spiritual traditions. Later on, when I started reading at Mananda, Christiana Menon, it was as if he gave me permission to think. And I then started thinking and I was like a childhood being let loose in a candy shop. So that was a long answer to your question. Why don't I, I don't think there is reason. The best we can say is that why does the one localize itself as a finite mind and as a result appear to itself in forming time and space in arcade? It is its nature to do so, not for any reason. It is just its nature