Reflecting on the Elephant

I think what I mean by the "elephant in the room" is that while our consciousness seems to operate by defining "parts", there is both an intuitive sense, as well as a logical progression, to those parts belonging to a "whole." If true reality is actually not parts at all, but a whole, then the pursuit of absolute philosophy is one where humans become "conscious" of this whole. Bergson ultimately takes a practical viewpoint, in that he recognizes, as the Zen masters recognize, that to be consious of a whole, of which consciousness is actually a part, is an impossible paradox. In that case, intuition may be used as a tool that only "hints" at the whole (through symbolism? art? dreams?) in order to enrich whatever consciousness is and what it is becoming. Perhaps this process is the very definition of "becoming" - an exchange between the unconscious and the conscious.