Is consciousness just an illusion?

Well to be honest you haven't really tried to explain to anyone what this truth is. What is "eternal consciousness awareness"? I assume it means reality and consciousness are one and the same, but how do you know this? Is it something that can be demonstrated as true (or at least likely)? Or is it something you've made a leap of faith about? If the former, can you show us the logic or evidence you used? And if the latter, can you blame others for not making the same leap?

It is your "own" truth about your being and existence. I can't answer that for you. We are all here for the human experience and what a wonderful opportunity we have in this realm to connect with our consciousness or eternal awareness. I don't do faith, that is more founded in religious dogma and the separate notion of God and I am not religious.  Yes, take the leap, but it doesn't have to be one of faith. I would rather call it trust. Trust in all that is going on around you, all that you have and all that you are, is working through you as intended and created by action. IT IS ALL ACTION AND CONSEQUENCE and that is how powerful we are. How else do we take responsibility for our actions? Priding oneself in what we can get away with isn't going to cut it in the long run.

The suffering in humans an be immense and then perhaps growing into the understanding of self-awareness about the universe and it's connection to what inhibits everything is the key. Where is this "self" really? Taking it out of the biblical context, Christ knew this and he transcended. Just look at all that is perishable\impermanent around you, even your body. People fear death, yet they keep going around in the same circles of life, birth, life, death, rebirth. The cycle about your "own truth", can be broken and risen, but each to their own and at their own pace. Hey, perhaps some people haven't been around long enough or experienced enough lifetimes to see or even feel how it operates.

Being intelligent, erudite and well read is great, but by that same token and at the risk of sounding trite, knowledge from a great capacity for memory retention is not necessarily wisdom. This is where our innate intelligence needs to be used and allows us to look at things from a more open and loving perspective about our reason for being here. As mentioned earlier, it is about "purpose". That is your truth and that has to be discovered by only you. 
 

Whatever! Your conceit and arrogance is what is your projection and you aren't even aware of it. What exactly is it that you feel I am in denial and avoidance of? As far as I'm concerned, your sense of self-superiority is all bound up in your ego and sense of self and that makes me streets ahead of you fool!

So you don't feel that subjectivity plays a part in anything and how we can perceive things differently when coming from the self? And if subjectivity is all just an illusion, then so is objectivity. It is after all, only a projection of the ego mindset. Perhaps then, none of it is real, or what you think of as real.

At the end of the day, objectivity and subjectivity is all one and whole and the same. Don't think about something, subjectivity doesn't exist, don't think about something, objectivity doesn't exist. It is all an illusion, or in your case a delusion.

Yes, you are hard work and hard headed. That will be, if not already, your ruination. You couldn't teach anyone jack that is grounded in anything "authentic", other than what you believe to be real and impressive, when the irony is, that it is all just mindless pseudo-intellectual academic drivel you spout. Enjoy patting all you colleagues on the back do you, with how impressive you think you all are, when in reality—or is that illusion—you know absolutely nothing? And the paradox here is, we are nothing; but not the nothing of being finite like you believe. What a horrid, rotten, pretentious ass you must be, to be around.  

I'm not a very wise person, that's why.

And you correlate your ignorance with wisdom, like most Dunning-Kruger victims.