Consciousness to the neural world is quite different from the real consciousness of spirituality.

Consciousness of spirituality is an awareness. Today you are awake, you are reading, you are listening, you are seeing. When you are not conscious, when you are unconscious, then you can't do this. You may be subconscious which means that your body may be in a state of unconsciousness, but your mind is still conscious.

You are alive, you are breathing, you are dreaming, you are sleeping, but the neural world has no real explanation of consciousness. What happens at death when the consciousness departs? Where does the consciousness go? Where does consciousness come from?

Therefore we must try to understand consciousness from a spiritual point of view, that way we will understand the meaning.