ConsciousThoughts: Motivator disclosed

A disclosure: while I’ve always been interested in the concept of consciousness, it’s only been within the last 9 years that I’ve actually done much reading on the subject.

I was motivated to explore the concept of consciousness after undergoing what could be labeled as a transformative moment.  During childbirth, I experienced a state of knowing that changed my entire outlook on the concept of consciousness; I became aware of a unity consciousness, where multiple human beings existed as a single entity for a moment in time.  I didn’t give birth; rather, WE gave birth.

Sure, you might say, it was only a drug-induced hallucination or stress-related traumatic response (or from some of my detractors, more of my crackpottedness).  Point taken.  But for a moment in time I KNEW something else, found myself in a different space and in a different frame of reference.

If reality can be defined as our perception of our life experience, then regardless of the path I took to get there, I was in a different reality.  And if reality can be defined as our experience of consciousness, then I was in a different consciousness for that short window of time.

From that time 9 years ago I’ve been convinced there’s something more than meets the eye, that consciousness is not just a narrow tube through which we are fed information from the world around us.  I KNOW there is more to it, but that for some reason we do not have access to all of the information all of the time about the nature of our world.

Is it perhaps that we’re ill-prepared in our current state of evolution to handle the massive amount of input the universe could provide us?  Perhaps we are only children, toddlers, in terms of the big picture, as yet unable to do more than string simple pieces of information in a well-mannered continuum?

When others complain about the overwhelming amount of data that bombards us every day from many media sources, I take pause.  I wonder if this is the edge of the next phase in our development, being able to assimilate and make sense of a wealth of information simultaneously.

I wonder as well whether your reading this entry (and anything else on the internet) is not also part of the next step in our evolution.  You and I are nerves, across a synapse spanned by a network, firing information back and forth to each other.  We are part of a larger entity, connected., pushing and pulling information between each other in great gobs, much as our own brains are continually moving data around inside our heads.  Is this really what we’re evolving into, a Gaia-brain, a Gaia-consciousness?  Are we now hardwiring that which has existed but been untapped, lying only in our underutilized human software?  Are WE giving birth again, to something much larger than ourselves?

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ConsciousThoughts:  The Raven replies

Next installment, a reply from Raven, now posted for your reading pleasure.  Jump in and comment any time, it's a big topic needing a lot of eyeballs and brain power.

I owe Raven a reply, which I'll post here later today.

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Waving the flag and I didn't know it...

Paul Hinrichs pointed out that the Weatherpixie on my page disappeared for some time pre-dawn this morning, replaced by an American flag. How odd! Wonder if Jan Haugland gets a Norwegian flag at any point pre-dawn Bergen time? Is it the Weatherpixie's way of saying,"We now conclude today's programming"? Or is creator Tamsin working on the Pixie's wardrobe or something?

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