Consciousness only corrupts the notion of nothingness if consciousness is, itself, some thing. We have no way to know if matter exists completely independent of our senses. We don't even have a way to verify that something exists at all, except by the possible illusion of banging illusory stuff against more illusory stuff. If the desk you bang your hand on to justify "solid reality" is just as dependent upon consciousness as the hand, it demonstrates nothing, in and of itself.
What's probably more true is that nothing and everything are a continuum. One bleeding into the other, from different perspectives, and even simultaneously. Neither can "be" without the other.
What's probably more true is that nothing and everything are a continuum. One bleeding into the other, from different perspectives, and even simultaneously. Neither can "be" without the other.