If I grant your definition of consciousness, what may I call the quality of two inert, inorganic elements that react to one another, and through this reaction form a third entity. For example what may we call the acceptance on the part of a hydrogen atom, when it joins with two oxygen atoms to become water?

I still posit that this reaction is the elemental form of consciousness, and does not require cognitive effort on the part of the atom, nor does it require cognitive effort on some outside force. It is inherent to the structure of the atom itself.

Doorsopen,
For me 'being' is pure consciousness - the one mind of all there is, the creator within, it is the only thing that is real. I Am, a divine immortal invisible soul centered in a physical body made up of thought waves of motion. There is nothing real exist in the material world, where every thing is a reflection only of pure consciousness - Being.

ד,כב [יז] הוא היה אומר, יפה שעה אחת בתשובה ומעשים טובים בעולם הזה, כחיי העולם הבא; יפה שעה אחת של קורת רוח בעולם הבא, מכל חיי העולם הזה.

It is better an hour of good deeds in this world, than all of existance in the upper world, Even though an hour in the upper world is more beautiful than all of life in this world. [Pirkei Avoth -- Ethics of the Fathers (4-22)]

. . . Why would the soul enter reality if reality were false? . . .

I don't know what happened in your past that would make you want to separate yourself from reality and cleave to the world of souls. But you are in the world for a reason. So live here now. There will be a time for life in the next world.

There is no such thing as action, there is but reaction, perhaps you will not agree, but it will make for an interesting dialogue. Have you expounded upon this idea in previous posts, if so, I will backtrack to get the feel of where you are coming from. I think we have agreement here, but perhaps I am jumping to conclusions, we will see.

Doorsopen, yes I see the universe is in continual motion, my understanding of it is that it's the rhythmic balance interchange between opposites that give us apparent time and motion.

for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

My studies lead me to understand that we live in a thought wave, mirror imaged universe, where everything is a reflection of itself.

This sense of sacrifice is not present in Kabbalah, which teaches instead a sense of awe towards the Divine. It does not seek to crush the ego to attain the Divine Will. On the contrary ego is called upon to serves that purpose.

. . . we live in a thought wave, mirror imaged universe, where everything is a reflection of itself.

If I grant your definition of consciousness, what may I call the quality of two inert, inorganic elements that react to one another, and through this reaction form a third entity. For example what may we call the acceptance on the part of a hydrogen atom, when it joins with two oxygen atoms to become water?

I still posit that this reaction is the elemental form of consciousness, and does not require cognitive effort on the part of the atom, nor does it require cognitive effort on some outside force. It is inherent to the structure of the atom itself.

Life may be made up of the atomic particles but that does not mean that inert particles on their own have consciousness and or combing two to make a third constitutes conscious perception on the part of that third element.

Consciousness is part of the human condition it is dependent upon a being who is able to perceive the world.

And how pray tell does water have consciousness?

Life may be made up of the atomic particles but that does not mean that inert particles on their own have consciousness and or combing two to make a third constitutes conscious perception on the part of that third element.
. . . And how pray tell does water have consciousness?

Fortunately that is not a philosophy question. Whether hydrogen is capable of consciousness, which it clearly is in certain circumstances in combination and might be all by itself for all we know is interesting enough but outside physics, biology, and psychology, too. The question might be whether the power of consciousness resides in the electron shell or the nucleus or in some deeper substructure and that would be the constituting basis of the new professional discipline of Electrology.

. . . What is Ego and how does that relate to being? Is it a component or is Ego just a function of Mind? And wherein does Mind fit with Being?

Freudian or Lacanian?

. . . Post Jungian. . . .
Have I dammed my self as a heretic?

Not mainstream. We must be mainstream to attract grants, excepting avant-garde artists and political philosophers. Literary critics wouldn't attract grants anyway. The Freud/Lacan dichotomy was intended to question whether the Self arises from within a person or if it is a reaction or creation in society. If it matters to anyone besides those who write theory and those who review and critique theory.

Yes it does matter because Self is elementary to Being. Being is Self . . . .

Some branches of philosophy seem to mention Self and some don't. The ones that do seem to be intertwined with psychology. In Being and Time Heidegger tried to at least ask the question of being, not beings, not the being of a being, but the being of being. That was his oldest question from his very beginning and he tried to discover what the pre-socratics said about it, which is interesting in that he gets into the language, very useful for reading Derrida. Self doesn't seem to enter into it, except for the Dasein whatever that is, which sees things in his world as things, such as a hammer and doesn't see them until they become hammers, that is they have no being until the Dasein gives it to them. Also, the Dasein finds itself in the world by interaction with Others, feedback. This I think is Lacan's point, that the Self is created, or found, in the social world. Freud wouldn't say that, but would say that the Self evolves naturally in the familiar stages, presumably even in the absence of society. Lacan is right, I think ,in that we can't know ourselves until we are in situations and see what we do.