Writings: The Curious Case of Consciousness and Cosmology

Posted on | July 8, 2009 | No Comments

What curious things consciousness and the cosmos are.

Both are amazing and mind-bogglingly impossible to fathom. The depths of consciousness are potentially as vast as the cosmos itself. It’s difficult to explain how it feels to be a conscious being to another conscious being, in that, no matter how you attempt to define a memory or a current heightened state of omnipresent-like self awareness, no one can really know what is really going on. Just as with the cosmos, we know certain details that lead to other concepts, etc., but we do not understand the very nature of the universe. What is it? Why does it exist? How is it that humans at this stage of the universe’s age have evolved just at the right time, on the right planet, to the right sized star, in right proportioned solar system, located at a “safer” part of our galaxy and so on and so forth?

It is difficult to explain and imagine. I am curious. I have been since as long as I can remember.

If one day we are able to explain the phenomena of consciousness, will this lend insight to the meaning of the cosmos? Or vice versa? Could this new found knowledge and actualization of a collective actualization create a larger distortion of our reality. Could a complete understanding of consciousness awaken the existential layer found within all of us? I have so many thoughts and questions that many other people have a least thought of at some point in their lives. We all ask ourselves the single biggest existential question of “Why are we here?” My difference in question is not asking WHY we are here, but more over, why are we conscious just enough to realize to ask the question why are we here. Why does the cosmos’ infinite nature resemble human consciousness at its greatest potential? There has to be a connection of some kind. Maybe I am reaching a bit, but what if none of this is “REAL”. I know if Rene Decartes were alive and here right now, he would have a fit with me.

It’s always good to question every aspect of existence…even existence itself.

Only one way to find out about existence altogether and that is to go through with it.

Until we all get to “the other side”, we will never know. For now at least.

The cosmos and consciousness will be better connected and understood once we all cross over. (That is of course…if there is anything after death other than total stillness.)

Are you curiously conscious? Cosmologically challenged? Let’s let MetaPhysical…

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