Dear Reader,
My last post was almost 1 year ago today. The pandemic is now over 12 months old. The pandemic is what is known as a “Black Swan” event. It comes suddenly, without much foreboding. It has changed our societies and will leave a historical record of worldwide human suffering. Closer to home, I view it as changing our collective consciousness.
Humans have different connotations for consciousness. Trying to define consciousness takes us into the world of neuroscience, the science of the brain, and while some excellent research has been conducted, a consistent definition of consciousness has proved elusive. For me, a succinct definition is “the state of being awake and aware of one’s surroundings.” And our surroundings and societal “so-called “norms have been altered permanently. And it is okay. The reason it is okay is that “it is as it is.” That is to say I am consciously “being present as to what is, nothing more. This is the noumena; a thing as it is in itself, as distinct from a thing as it is knowable by the senses through phenomenal attributes. This is like “letting go” and surrendering to “what is”
It is my choice to look to try to look at things as they are and not interpret their meaning which leads to wasteful thought and time and leads to the creation of my “phenomena”.
Dear reader, I must go now as the clock says it 10 AM. I wish to follow my daily calendar and move on to the next task which is entitled “Get Deb up.” Please be kind to others that have less than us. Thank you for visiting my space.