Consciousness is what enables experience, any experience at all, and so there is no experience of consciousness. In the same way consciousness is not, it does not possess being, it is void in relation to being. Experience which is something integrated in time, belongs to soul, for want of a better term, and the being of soul is consciousness, and so is void. It is only the belief that soul has substantial being on a par with the content of experience, that it is grounded in substance that leads it on the wayward path of metaphysics.