Ode To My Consciousness
đWorking on a super project for my blogâŠNot this blog my other blog đ. I will post it here as well :) maybe
It's an ODE TO MY CONSCIOUSNESS
But, understandably enough, too many people argue on thisâŠ.
By the way, Iâm working on a poem not a story. So, letâs enjoy the ride.
***Consciousness is the grand architect of our existence and not just a mere byproduct of our brain. The way we see and interact with the world is what shapes our reality.
Like a great mind once said (paraphrasing here) we are not born with a purpose. We create our reality through choices, perceptions, beliefs, and actionsâŠ.Who could argue otherwise?
SadlyâŠmost of us have no clue, and we are always adriftâŠ..
Consciousness is, incredibly, the ultimate force from which everything else derivesâŠ. It is pure magic.
We are the true architects, the builders, the innovators, the magicians in our livesâŠ. creating and destroying as we navigate the universe.
Find your focus point...Imagine and CreateâŠBecause⊠Who can deny that what we think âŠbecomes?... ***
It's an ODE TO MY CONSCIOUSNESS
But, understandably enough, too many people argue on thisâŠ.
By the way, Iâm working on a poem not a story. So, letâs enjoy the ride.
***Consciousness is the grand architect of our existence and not just a mere byproduct of our brain. The way we see and interact with the world is what shapes our reality.
Like a great mind once said (paraphrasing here) we are not born with a purpose. We create our reality through choices, perceptions, beliefs, and actionsâŠ.Who could argue otherwise?
SadlyâŠmost of us have no clue, and we are always adriftâŠ..
Consciousness is, incredibly, the ultimate force from which everything else derivesâŠ. It is pure magic.
We are the true architects, the builders, the innovators, the magicians in our livesâŠ. creating and destroying as we navigate the universe.
Find your focus point...Imagine and CreateâŠBecause⊠Who can deny that what we think âŠbecomes?... ***
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đThat's an incredibly insightful take, and I deeply appreciate you sharing your perspective, especially the core premise that "Your mind is a place...it is not you!" It provides a fascinating counterpoint and expands the very concept I am attempting to articulate in my poemâŠ..
You've beautifully laid out a philosophical framework that challenges the conventional understanding of self, moving beyond the Cartesian "I think, therefore I am" to an "I became and then I began to think."âŠ. This distinction between the "being" at conception and the "thinking" mind shaped by culture and sensory data is a powerful one.
I particularly like your idea of the mind as a "flexible container" or "balloon" being filled. It leads me to really think: So, if the mind is the place where thoughts are stored, and not the self that experiences, then perhaps my poem's assertion that "Consciousness is the grand architect...the ultimate force from which everything else derives" isn't contradictory to your premise but rather describes the essence of the "you" that exists prior to and beyond the mind's material container.
So nowâŠ..If the mind is a place, then what is the "occupant" that observes this filling, that engages with the "collective unconscious," and that ultimately chooses to perceive reality in a certain way? Is that the "pure magic" I referred to, the unconditioned awareness that then infuses the "game" of life with meaning, even if that meaning is self-created and, as you suggest, not to be taken too seriously?
Your vision of two architects: quantum reality "out there" and the self "in here" is very intriguing. It suggests a beautiful and profound dance between the fundamental fabric of existence and the individual consciousness that interprets and interacts with it. Perhaps my poem, in celebrating the "true architects, the builders, the innovators, the âmagiciansâ in our lives," is speaking to that very "self" that you distinguish from the "mind-place," the one that actively shapes reality through its choices, perceptions, and beliefs, even if it's within a framework it didn't choose to be "embedded" inâŠâŠ.
Thank you for your profound expansion of the discussion. It adds so many layers to consider as I continue to explore these themes.
âŠ. And so many questions...
I think the ultimate question is: Where does each architect derive its power or existence from? Are they co-dependent?
Think for a minute. If reality is co-created by these two, what does that imply about the nature of purpose, free will, and this game of life? How do these two architects influence each other?
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I hope you don't mind me sharing the following from one of my posts on Quora:
The premise; "Your mind is a place...it is not you!"
Letâs be clear. All of us have come to our current reality from our âpoint of being embedded in the fabric of time.â The moment of our point of being embedded in the time fabric corresponds to our moment of conception. That is our entry point to the material realm, but our brain stem doesnât even start to develop until week five. Descartes said, âCogito ergo sumâŠI think therefore I am,â but thinking as we know it doesnât even start until after we are born when we are first introduced to âhuman culture.â That is when we start to become sapientâŠas in homo sapiens or thinking man. And that is when the crux of the premise posed above rears its ugly head.
Think about itâŠfrom the time your brain stem began to develop, the place you were going to store your thoughts, your mindâŠor for the materialist, your brain, was developing more and more capacity like a flexible container. Like blowing up a balloon!
Well you ask, âwhat was happening all that time before I started filling my mind with all those thoughts?â and the answer is we donât know, but there is something going on for sure. We can detect âbrain wavesâ in the developing child via EEG about week 6. This is where Jungâs âcollective unconsciousâ and the notion of âarchetypesâ comes in. âBut where did they come from,â you ask. And my answer is, that you will never get there by thinking! Which brings us back to the premise posed that started this discussion.
âYour mind is a placeâŠit is not you!â From birth and even before (if Jung is right) it is being filled with sensory dataâŠdata that is useful for us homo sapiens in our journey from our point of being embedded in the fabric of timeâŠprimordial at first, the lizard brain. So all this time here in âour universeâ there has been this material realm we call life or Earth or the solar system. âBut where did it come from?â and I would say, from its point of being embedded in the fabric of time. But how can that be, you ask, and the answer is, it canât! No, not in any sense that we can think about, but we have all experienced it, otherwise we would not be here. And this is where Descartes and later existentialists got it backwards. It should have been, âI became and then I began to think!â
So, you ask, whatâs the point of all this thinking? And I would say, âwho knows!â and give a bit of a chuckleâŠâwho knowsâŠha, ha, ha!â The point is, itâs better to stay on the light side rather than dwell in despair on the dark side. All this stuff âout thereâ and âin hereâ is illusionary and shouldnât be taken too seriously or put another way âlife is a game.â So keep in mind, âYour mind is a place, it is not you. âThis is the major theme of my science fiction trilogy.
So maybe there are at least 2 architects...the one 'out there' being quantum reality...and the one 'in here' being the self! Your thoughts?