Each time I think that I have nailed
the frog of consciousness to the board; the frog has slipped again from my
grasp. The answer to the puzzle is too easy to be true. How did I miss it, arriving
this month, in my 85th year of life? Certainly, it would have been useful to
have the answer by now. Consciousness is a bit too much like pain. It is not
easily remembered or remembered at all in its true exactness of the moment. We
live in the NOW and can never have it again and cannot see what is to come next.
The past can be too shameful and the future too fearful; so the Now is best
for my feeble mind with enlarged brain can bear. When I find music that I like, I play it over
and over as if I can linger in the NOW of it. But the music can never be felt
the same way as the first time.
Our guest blogger, Tom, has solved the
puzzle for himself by emerging as a spiritual being which is no doubt unencumbered
by time and circumstance. Beauty is simple and direct.
The first guest blogger, if you
remember, was Robert who said, “consciousness is the spark of life in is purest
form and it can’t be described as anything but divine.”
The three bloggers (myself included) are in
sync to the position. Spark of life, spiritual
being, and the NOW are certainly difficult, if not impossible, to measure. If
you can’t measure it, it is not scientific. For these three bloggers, at least,
consciousness is an intangible mystery.
Well here is my question to my writing
group and my friends out there. What is your short take on consciousness?
I am asking because I have sought for
years to find someone to disciple to in addition to Jesus but to no avail.
There are no giant men or women to look to for guidance.
But at last there is a hope for the
future. By collecting and sorting and gathering in all the patches of wisdom
that have come my way, there is a quilt to be made and a fabric to be woven
into an invisible blanket holding up the planet Earth. If you are still holding
any patches send them my way now.
Send your patches to: pkat80@gmail.com
