February 27, 2003
are we really in control
In the United States right now, the burning issue of the day has become the question regarding whether or not we should attack Iraq. Everybody has an opinion about this. Thus, making this is a very polarized issue. What I am concerned about is not the answer to this question, but rather the processes that occur in people consciousness that give this question intense emotional energy. I believe that if we back away from the issue itself and look at how humans approach issues like this we can gain some insight into the way in which groups of humans become influenced by forces completely out of their individual control.
First, objectively as possible lets describe what is happing in idividual peoples' consciousness. Most Americans are recieving sensory information regarding this proposed war from television, newspapers, the internet and conversation. With the exception of the internet (and possibly conversation) only a very small number of people are creating and delievering this information that many people depend upon to make decesions regarding this issue. Furthermore, the people that are making the articles or news reports that ***
February 11, 2003
am I alive or dead
Time is something that we cannot touch - it is not a thing. In math time is often represented as change. Objectively speaking, what is time? Outside of consciousness does time exist? What about this notion of future and past?
All we can perceive is this 'now.' Everything in our consciousness dealing with future or the past has a ghost-like quality of unreality. Even the photographs we look at seem to only be the remains of something that once existed.
On the same vein, someday there will be no future for you. After death, you will have no brain-centered consciousness to sense even a now moment. We think of time in concrete terms; however, we in every objective sense cannot ever know truly what time is. Try to separate time from consciousness. You cannot. Every single thing or idea you can utter or even vaguely imagine is somehow hinged upon ones subjective perception (even this one that I am currently writing). All we can do with our intellect is point a metaphoric finger at an objective truth.
So the question I put forth is: if all that we have and all that we will ever have is now, am I alive or dead? Could it be that I am already dead and being born at the same time? That there is an unfolding and an awaking that is spring forth from eternity for each being.