The ice cannot exist without water. Same way the mind, which is mere objective awareness cease to exit, without the consciousness

Q:- P:- "I would like to go further into this by saying that there are two types of consciousness."
Now we are back to the old trick that there is a positive consciousness and a negative consciousness. But is there not only one consciousness? Only the present state of consciousness in the world?

SK:- The ice cannot exist without water.  Same way the mind, which is mere objective awareness cease to exit, without the consciousness [soul/self].  The positive or negative consciousness is reality within the duality. The diversity is reality on the base of false self. When the body and the world [mind] are made of consciousness, there is no scope for any second thing to exist other then consciousness. Hence it is called non dual.

Only when the ignorance vanishes one becomes aware of the one and only consciousness, which pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states. When everything is made of a single stuff, it is erroneous to judge and conclude the truth on the base of the object, without being aware of the subject. On the base of the object there is oneness, and on the base of the object as subject [physical self] there is diversity.

Therefore, there is a need to understand the fact that, object is not the subject. The subject is formless [soul] and object is the form [mind].  The man and his experience of the world exist within the mind.   Thus whatever, one knows, sees, experiences, and believes as person of the world are reality within the mind. The mind is unreal on the base of its substance from which it is created. 

When one identifies the body and the world are apart from the consciousness, he remains ignorant of the true fact that, everything is the product of the consciousness.  The illusion [three states] cannot be considered as real.

 If one takes the illusion as reality, then the dream which is mere illusion has to be taken as reality. What was the material of the dream? What witnessed the dream as a whole  without the physical apparatus?  What is it that witnessed the dream without the physical apparatus?  The same witness, which witnessed the dream, witnessed the waking experience as whole without the physical apparatus. 

Thus, the idea of negative and positive consciousness is based on the false self, within the false experience.  Thus the falsehood is the product of the ignorance. By getting rid of the ignorance makes one realize there is no second thing exist other then consciousness [soul].  

Thus, one has to learn to view everything on the base of the subject [soul]   as self, to clear all clouds of confusion.