The What-Is-Not

[Shannon]

Just as our consciousness is a vessel to transform energy from food and water into life, the flame is a vessel to transform the stored energy in the vax into life.

The flame is consciousness

I would disagree. You say consciousness is a vessel and it transforms food and water into life. I say consciousness is what is "contained" within the body that does the transforming, and that life is not the result of transforming food or water into something else, but simply enabled by it to express itself through the physical body.

Consciousness is life.

But all energy is consciousness.

If the flame is consciousness, what separates it from the consciousness that is the wax, or the wick, or the energies expressed by the flame as light, heat, etc?