Consciousness is a fascinating topic, to the point is not really understood by science. A good chunk of living things are indeed conscious and that begs the simple question of why, if it only mostly wastes energy
I’ve believed most of my life that it is just a freak accident that, as everything else, evolved to try to be a perk, a feature instead of a bug, so to speak, but the older I get (and the more I practice) I wonder if it is not an active mechanism in the universe. According to Hermeticism, it would be right. According to me, I have questions, not answers.
consider this, you can actively remove your consciousness from your body and still persist. What does that knowledge now do to all of your previous questions?
to me consciousness is a collective bank of stored experiences and knowledge. but it is far more than that, you can access memories from previous or future lives. once you learn to interact with it you can utilize its functions to exit the corporeal body. Here’s a quick little activity you can try to get a better understanding of how the consciousness/awareness moves. Lay down flat in bed and close your eyes. think about one of your feet. Any feelings or sensations, maybe some blood pumping. After a little bit your entire awareness will be down in your foot. You will feel like you are in your foot instead of your head. Once you have this and you are familiar with this sensation. Try sending this awareness through your whole body.
I’m able to meditate and move my awareness to my hand for example. I also become much happier like that. For me this state is fleeting and unstable, I’m no Buddha and neither do I want to be.
The problem to me in meditation like I said that it alters your state of awareness away from alpha.
I’d like to change the alpha state from its root.
I’m interested in being more aware in regular consciousness.
This statement assumes that rocks aren’t sentient and don’t have feelings.
Take plants for instance. Studies have been done and shown. Results that lead to the opposite outcome. Plants can get the exact same light, amounts of water and nutrients. Only difference being the way someone talked to the plants. So the plants that were praised grew exponentially. While the plants that were screamed at and belittled had stunted growth.
@Kish I only feel residual energy when I’m around them.
Do you feel any different?
The word stoned in English according to Google means under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
From this I understand unaware of your physical surroundings and anything completely lacking that awareness like regular stones the kind you find on the road or thrown around on the street because even plants have awareness of what’s physically around them is the definition of death.
My intuition tells me that crystals/gems/precious metals have some awareness of their surroundings because people worship them and give them energy.
I’m not saying don’t experiment but everything has risks and rewards and experimenting with heavy doses can be very dangerous.
So read in another thread here that the first deities were in fact female saturnine. So elohim is also female because I read in one of the Qabbalah books that they are binah in this world.
Binah is understanding in English and in the gemmorah it says the ability to deduce one thing from another thing v. Chockmah wisdom that’s defined as the scholarly superficial grasp on the surface of a thing v. Daat that’s translated as knowledge that’s explained as the connection between the previous two and seeing both the trees and the forest.
Why does philosophy seem to be outside of the mainstream life and study of consciousness?
What’s even the definition of mainstream?
“the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are regarded as normal or conventional; the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts.”
Many People want easy quick answers. While philosophy gives convoluted hard answers that aren’t immediately applicable to everyday life.
Is philosophy really divorced from everyday life consciousness study?
It doesn’t have to be it can be a part of it. It can elevate it: for example- understanding the executive function can help one act more efficiently and quicker.
Does philosophy have an intrinsic value? Philosophy that studies itself can help hone the tools necessary to study other more practical fields, like AI neurology that have to do with directly studying consciousness in the real world.