Consciousness is certainly
confusing. I have read about 20 books on consciousness and still feel that without some confusion I will continue to be a seeker.
So, I will reach down into
my heart and attempt a summary:
1.
I do not completely control my consciousness.
2.
I have often felt a victim and blamed others rather than blame my
“wandering “consciousness.
3.
I can feel able to bring my consciousness into focus and realize
that my consciousness is affecting my sense of well-being.
4.
I now feel obligated and compelled to look inside myself rather
than looking outside. My consciousness is an inside job.
5.
With better awareness and a modest control of my consciousness I
am rewarded with some serenity.
6.
As my serenity Increases I am also rewarded with increasing depth
of perspective. It is like seeing the waterfall as opposed to seeing a movie of
the waterfall.
7.
With continuing effort, I am seeing the world and myself as a
hologram[1].
The hologram includes my heart and my brain and thus, my whole being.
8.
When I feel the hologram, I feel the presence of God.
“What a hoot,”
clucks Hooie, the barn owl, “What a stretch of the imagination lies in the pen
of our dear author, Phil. Is he saying that all of the information needed to
make the ‘whole me’ rests in a single cell of my tail feathers.?”
“ I believe that you
can be whole without serenity,” bleats BillyG,
“To get serenity I have to stop
butting people in the fanny and remember to look deep inside for any
resentments I am holding on to.”
Free, the butterfly
hums, “When I am judging I cannot have vision.”
“I have been thinking about how long we have been in this cave,” squawked
Freegata, the frigate bird. "Because of our ‘supportive other’ we have been
able to go out and mate or take care of necessary chores.”
Mira, the sloth spoke up with
conviction, “As you must realize I am
much to slow to be able to get out of this cave and do chores and mate. By now
my mating scream would be so loud that it might shatter the wings of Leda, the
dragonfly. But I am comfy here because of my supportive other, Bosco, and all
of you, in this group. There is a mystery in this group. You have helped me to look in rather
than out. I have found my experience of
God by looking inward.”
Shazam spoke up in a nearly human voice,
“Finally, this is making biscuits. If we become better animals or better
angels, then people will feel it and start looking inside themselves. Then they
will take care of our dear planet.”
“ A consciousness tempered by honest life
experience creates a hologram of beauty and grace.” Chirped Bertie the peregrine
falcon.
Suggested reading: Shame and Guilt by Ernst Kurtz available at Amazon
I have suggested this book because it may help one have more courage to look inside.
Suggested reading: Shame and Guilt by Ernst Kurtz available at Amazon
I have suggested this book because it may help one have more courage to look inside.
[1] a three-dimensional image
reproduced from a pattern of interference produced by a split coherent beam of
radiation (such as a laser); ...but a hologram can have a much deeper
meaning.
