A life-long project:
to write about the connection between the works of Alan Watts and Hinduism, Peterson and neuroscience, Jung and the role, Russel Brand and socio-economical-politics glued in-between with some Nietzsche, John Stuart Mill, Victor Frankl, Aristotle, Albert Camus, with a frosting of history, anthropology and loads of semiotics.
I disagree. I believe that a man who is honest with himself does not dare to offend because he knows that he can be as brutal if it would’ve happened otherwise.
A man who is honest with himself is a man who met his shadow, as described in the Jungian literature.
I like to live my life with trust, hope, confidence and faith in my fellow companions that one day they will genuinely desire for kindness, surrender, redemption, love, service etc.
IMO, the era of mind and body is dimming, nearing its end, due to their limitations. The era of consciousness is underway.
Above animals, the homo sapiens triumph. The body developed a new mechanism to compute the sensorial data. This data is the mind. It is a machine generating thoughts after thoughts. It is impeccable. It brought us this far.
We are developing our society towards the highest standards. We gather knowledge to understand existence and non-existence, to improve our comfort through technology, medicine, science etc. Through emotions, we created art, poetry, music etc. We started imagining harmony, divinity. We pounder thoughts after thoughts, through trials and errors, and we developed the desire for love and peace.
We’re learning. We are becoming more and more aware of our surroundings, of our inner self, of the universe through theories, experiments, introspection, analysis, interpretation, sensorial experiences etc. We embrace all possibilities and we try not to exterminate ourselves. We are the human specie and each one of us is part of it. Within the body, there is a mind and above them there is consciousness. This flesh, this carcass is the vessel, while the mind is the machine developing consciousness’ next container.
In these circumstances, one might argue that consciousness is harmful to us. While others can accept it as the greater good. One side fights against consciousness, one side accepts the enlightenment. One side adheres to conservative means to postpone the inevitable which is consciousness, while the other adheres to the Ubermensch and devote our lives to consciousness.
The era of consciousness is an era of an ethical and moralistic competition, where the latter has an universal set of rules: kindness, surrender, redemption, love, service etc. Embrace them because where the mind has limitations, technology overcomes them. However, I believe that, in time, technology will replace most of our functions allowing consciousness to transfer from a biological entity to a non-biological one. It would then be the dawn of the human specie. I believe that it will be then when technology will decimate us. We would be of no use, unless we find another way to serve consciousness. Faith, IMO, is our only hope.
I do not agree with the concept of a “higher consciousness”. I believe that as an atom is formed out of electron, neutron and proton, we is the human formed out of mind, body and consciousness.
I believe that we mix the mind with consciousness because they imply each other. As in Zen Buddhism, the mind is a machine generating thoughts. Through it, consciousness became aware to us. For consciousness the body and the mind are vessels. Our sense of identity is given by the mind; a side effect if you will.
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.” ― Bill Hicks
Emanuel Ștefancu 