30 Kehoe on Consciousness

Tom Kehoe

 

        The guest blog today is offered by Tom Kehoe. This is a very personal reflection on consciousness. I hope you enjoyed as much as I.    

       

        Lately, a friend has been posting many photos sent back to Earth from various space probes launched from just down the street at the Kennedy Space Center. Beautiful photos! UNBELIEVABLE! Yet I choose to believe that they are actual photos generated by some type of camera designed specifically to capture images in outer space. These images have set me to thinking more about the universe than I have in quite some time. The vastness! Infinity! What's beyond the universe? What will we learn that will prove to be of utmost importance? Anything? In contemplating these and other questions one can begin to feel very minute, so tiny, almost inconsequential.
         But I know that I am not!
         I am certainly not inconsequential to me!
         After all, I am at the very center of that massive, infinite, mind blowing universe. Now, just knowing that I am at the center of the universe might lead me to believe that I am the Most Important Occupant or MIO (some prefer GOD) but I know that I am not. I am aware that at least a billion other of us humans believe they are the center of the universe. Not important. That's ok. Close enough. I am conscious of these things mainly by interacting with some of these other beings and sharing our experiences.
        I believe that the entire universe is pulling for me. That EU (Entire Universe) wants desperately for me to be happy, for me to succeed. I also believe that I create my own consciousness. I create my own reality. I see what I wish to see. I feel (uh oh) what I wish to feel. I find what I'm looking for.
I used to be miserable and found life unbearable. I expected worse things to follow bad things and that just made bad things worse!
       Now I am pretty happy most of the time. I expect good things to happen to and for me, and that's what has been happening. Instead of looking for the next tragedy in my life, I look for blessings! I am grateful  and they keep coming! I am conscious of a steady stream of blessings raining down on me and I find that if I am thankful, AND if I share them whenever possible, the storm of blessings becomes torrential!
      I believe all of this has come about through a small change in my CONSCIOUSNESS!
      I no longer consider myself as a human being having a spiritual experience occasionally. I now consider myself a spiritual being of some sort, presently having a human experience.
      My CONSCIOUSNESS, what I am aware of, may or may not be real or true or valid or appropriate to or for anyone else. So what. It works for me! And I'm really not interested in having my bubble burst! I'm getting along very well with my MIO and the closer we get the better off I am.