higher consciousness

This specialization [evolution of the consciousness] must be corrected by recovering once again a generalized apprehension which does not reject any experience - be it color or the sense of the self - whereby the organism lives. For the organism which begins to dismiss actual experiences because these disturb the simplicity of its explanations is headed for that ever-narrowing awareness which ends in presenting itself with a world in which it cannot live - a world not only without sanction but without meaning.

-Gerald Heard

Forward thinking terrestrials

mein weltbild

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. -einstein

insides are dancing

Been pre-occupied with the non-stop pondering of what I should do next.. and it's a delicate balance between making goals and a plan, but also floating along and letting yourself be taken away on this random, spontaneous ride of life. It's as though i'm on this non-stop quest to figure out life- when in reality, there's nothing to figure out. Things just keep happening, situations arise, things occur.. and the brain just doesn't stop powering this machine with non-stop thinking about everything during it all.. about what is, isn't, could be, would be, should be.. Constantly in a battle between fact and fiction. But a lot of times i can't ever catch a single thought, because I'm not actually thinking about one single particular thing.. but instead it's kind of a feeling- combined with thinking- or imagining, or marveling about things like, how intriguing the spaces between things are.. everything being shaped by time and space.. beautiful mishaps, causality, consciousness, nothing expanding into something.. it's all so incredible!
soo.. could perhaps have some truth to it, but maybe that's why so many people now have adhd.. because there's just so much happening, so complete sensory overload! humans and their brains.. adaptation.. it takes time.. and after thousands of years, we're suddenly in this technological age when we're doing 7 things at once. percieving the world through 5 senses. it's a tug of war. So as i was saying.. it's all a delicate balance. and floating.

and I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts. - Einstein

the mind / body dichotomy

The question, then, is how it can be possible for conscious experiences to arise out of a lump of gray matter endowed with nothing but electrochemical properties?

how i see it

Sometimes i sit and think, and feel my actual body mass... like how i'm just made of 75 trillion cells.... cells that were products of millions of years of evolution... and every cell contains my specific information, and works alone individually on its own accord, requiring no thought. they just all work coherently together and in the end are just what composes... a human body.. slash me. and how human thought itself is no more than a pattern of electrical signals in a matrix made from carbon rather than silicon... I love being reduced to these scientific elements that compose the earth... it just makes me think so much more broadly! ... like.. how insignificant i am... Not significant at all! and some would take that in a depressing light... but i take it in the complete opposite and see so much beauty in the idea ... that there isn't that much substance matter that differentiates me and anything else that exists, so we're just these substances all fluidly living together..

sir lancelot - my new fish

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler" - Henry David Thoreau