Thoughts on life and conciousness- 11/21/2003.
conciousness like energy is neither created nor destroyed, but just changes form. the concept that humans had no conciousness before birth is as silly as the concept that they will be pretty much the same after they die, except in a place called heaven. We don't live in a vacume.. A single cell in our body cannot live independent of the body for long.. it is not concious that it.. a single living organism is part of a giant organism made up of thousands of similar tiny organisms. Just as most humans fail to grasp that they too are just a tiny bit of a greater organism.. I'm not speaking in a metaphoric sense.. but in a physical one. It is scientific fact that our thoughs and bodies and actions cause resonations that go well beyond what we can see as a the physical impact of our body doing something... little bits of matter, electricity, fluxuations in magnetic feilds, and I'm pretty sure, particles and properties we are not yet aware of occure in everything we do... these things are not wholey independet, they have structure and purpose, and the cumulation of this activity creates a higher purpose and conciousness. just as the cells in our bodies do. What that is and what it does and how it effects us, well I have no more a clue to that as a skin cell does to what I'm doing day to day. The skin cells ignorance of my being doesn't mean I don't exist... and our ignorance of the larger picture does not mean it doesn't exist.. and although we may be born, and died, and change... this doesn't mean the greater life we support dies. nor do our effects on it die.. they dissapate, and become recycled, as the physical body dies, the resonence has already dispersed, and can not die.
What I speculate however, is that it is in my interest to keep a healthy, efficient, growing, happy organism... and I act accordingly so that the greater picture which encompasses us all will be as pleased as I am when my bodies cells are all working well and I feel good, and healthy, and happy. In physical terms, all our cells die, all our bodies will die.. the human race will also eventually died.. but it is young.. it is still a child. I hope it doesnt suffer a premature tragedy. but as it is what it is.. I have no fear of such things... in the end, as in the begining, all will become 1 again.