The Mind of God (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by BBella , Sunday, October 17, 2010, 23:11 (5149 days ago) @ dhw
edited by unknown, Sunday, October 17, 2010, 23:23

BBELLA: Of course it is a possibility we create these ideas of tuning into God or our higher selves/consciousness or our connections to others consciousness.
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> DHW: Consciousness seems to be the key to all our concepts... and the first statement I've quoted above shows that you remain open-minded at least intellectually. However, I just wonder to what extent your experiences have actually made you FEEL that there is a form of consciousness beyond our own, and how you would describe it. I hope that's not an intrusion, and if it is, please don't feel obliged to reply.
 
To preface my response: No, I am not on drugs. 
 
I will take your question literally and try and answer it with a literal response, in a simplistic fashion, as if I were trying to relate my experience about consciousness to a 'conscious' being, though not of my own planet, and then sum it all up at the end. 
 
To answer your question, to what extent my experiences has made me feel there is a form of consciousness beyond my own: I've observed consciousness everywhere, all around me, beyond myself, all the time. For example, I am at this moment writing to a form of consciousness beyond my own, you. Everyday, I observe and consciously relate to consciousness beyond my own in many ways. Of course, I'm still not absolutely convinced these other conscious forms truly exist outside my own, but, as a conscious observer, I do feel confident I myself am conscious. 
 
So, taking for granted what I see and relate to outside myself is real, for the most part, it seems to me, other forms of consciousness around me seem more to relate with me than me with them/it. People, animals, even plants at times, as well as inanimate objects appear to be trying to relate to me on a conscious level at various times in my experience. Even in my dreams it seems some form of consciousness is always trying to communicate with me or get my attention. But that should be no surprise because other conscious beings have related similar occurances and some ended up in the looney bins while others have made reports and studies on what they have observed in these (literal) matters and even written books.
 
This might seem to need more explaining in detail, but something even more facinating, and in the beginning, more inexplicable, began to happen to me after my "frozen in time" experience sometime ago. I began to observe patterns and numbers appearing to vy for my attention as well, as if seemingly to relate some kind of conscious message to me I have yet to decipher (other than it appears to be done consciously). Eventually, I heard of others having the same experience - which is another part of these patterns and the way they seem to go. What I experience, I eventually hear of others on a wide scale experiencing, then a book gets written about it. Fractals seem to elude to if not possibily explain some of these pattern phenomenon (if not all?) which is why it attracted my attention. But I do try and not follow any supposed answer too long for fear of getting lost from focusing on my own ability to continue to observe my own environment for myself and to relate with it and it's uncanny ability to relate to me. 
 
Again, it is possible my conscious mind is playing tricks on me, making me think there is something out there (other consciousness) other than myself trying to get my attention. But on the other hand, like the planets surrounding mankind giving them something to reach for, maybe what my consciousness is really doing is what it does best. Giving it's young growing self food for thought, something to expand to or reach for instead of a circuitous life circling between my ears. After all, consciousness, just like everything else in our univserse is ever evolving. 
 
To sum it all up - Possibly, it is mankinds natural evolution to eventually relate in a conscious way to everything in its surroundings. Maybe as mankind loves, cares and appreciate ourselves (and each other), our abilities, our evironment as well as grow more appreciation for the arts and the beauty of life and what we have been given, we will all eveuntually recognize we are the directors of our own path of evolution and are able to relate with all of it in a conscious way. Whether or not this is my own ideas or the thoughts and purpose of an Ultimate Maestro, it is but a small insight into my own short span of experience with consciousness "outside" myself.