Experiencing and consciousness are terms used interchangeably, do they have different connotations? Experiencing suggests that it is ongoing regardless of how it is taken to be, regardless of whether it seems to belong to someone or not, or of its quality, and which is at the least coterminous with life, while consciousness is something more or less present, an attribute of life and which must already be structured into a subject and object polarity, or a subject, object horizonal trinity. Consciousness has qualities but experiencing can have no qualities since it is these very qualities. Again experiencing is always fully present, while consciousness deigns to be objectified. These are really only differences in emphasis. If you say all experiencing takes place in consciousness is this less of a tautology than saying consciousness arises within experiencing? Consciousness seems to need a vehicle, which you call the mind, but if there is a vehicle for experiencing you might as well call it consciousness. The two are like those oddly portentous twins one sometimes encounters in dreams. Whatever it is, and it really has no name, is inherently and perhaps uncannily dual. In referring to it in any way you necessarily leave out exactly what is most important about it.