I have been giving a lot of thought to my writing lately and what I am really called to write about. I keep going down new roads trying to find what suits me and satisfies me most. I feel as a political commentator I suck. There are so many writers that I respect who are so much better and more well informed than I. I try to give my informed opinion but so what? Everyone has an opinion and I do not think I will change any minds anytime soon. When I write about God, or Being I am on much more solid ground. My degree in Philosophy, my study of comparative religions, my study of Christianity and Hinduism, and my own insights about what I write; ( which I truly believe are not just my own), have given me a lot more confidence in what I write.
Of course my own experiences and those of people I know do provide a rich ground for writing. When I was a kid I was told to write about what You know. Well, unfortunately for many many years I felt I just didn't know enough about anything. Now I know a lot more but I am nearing the end of my life, not the beginning. So what and who do you know, and when did you know it becomes a question which looms large on my horizon.
I was speaking to a friend this morning about consciousness. Now I believe everything is conscious to a smaller or larger degree. We all tend to equate consciousness to humans and perhaps to some extent animals, but when it comes to plants it really gets iffy for most people. I, on the other hand, believe even a rock or other supposedly dead, inanimate object is conscious.
Matter is made up of atoms, protons, neutrons , electrons, particles, waves, quarks, you name it it may have it. So why not consciousness? Now, I do not have a degree in physics but it has been a life long interest of mine. If the very act of observing a thing changes it's behavior, then to my untrained mind it displays consciousness. The directional moves may be predetermined by the laws of physics, so what else is new. When I unconsciously move one of my feet, a part of my being which is conscious has caused the move. Consciousness and unconsciousness are relative terms.
In my conversation with my friend this morning we were talking about universal mental consciousness. Because radio waves were recently discovered in the broad scope of history, doesn't mean they did not exist before we found them. The same with waves of consciousness. Because we cannot perceive these waves with our senses does not mean they do not exist. I mentioned that when a product or idea is found it one country it is often found at about the same time in another country or part of the world. Ideas cannot belong to one individual even though we do try to patent them. Ideas exist in the realm of consciousness, or as Plato would have said as a form. There is nothing new under the sun; it is only left to us to discover it.
Therefore, and thusly and indubitably, I maintain we are humans being rather than human beings. The internal consciousness or soul, or being, as I like to refer to it, is moving and forming us as humans, rather that we humans simply being conscious.
Then we have the Creator, the ultimate Being and Spirit, our little piece of the Whole. The One and it's Attributes, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Somewhere along the way is the Sacred fertile Goddess. the Holy Mother, Mother Earth. Where is this all leading? Follow along with me and perhaps we will enlighten you.
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