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

by dhw, Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 11:30 (5148 days ago) @ BBella

I had asked BBella if she could describe the consciousness she feels all around her.-BBELLA: To preface my response: No, I am not on drugs.-I never for one minute thought you were!-BBELLA: [...] 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 [...] 
Something even more fascinating [...] 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. [...] 
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.-I've extracted these salient points from your fascinating post, as they sum up your experiences and your attitude towards them rather neatly. Once more, thank you for sharing them with us. It all ties in with Matt's thread on the immateriality of consciousness, and I can understand more readily now why you feel there may be a kind of universal, evolving consciousness of which we are just a part. There's one other passage in your post which struck me as being quite extraordinary:-"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 its uncanny ability to relate to me." -This process is obviously vital for your own balanced existence, but at the same time it involves amazingly complex levels of observation and consciousness. You observe yourself observing other forms of consciousness relating to you, you look for explanations, but you also observe yourself looking for explanations, and from some kind of overall position you can actually switch off those two levels in order to focus just on the observation level. However, I presume you can switch off these levels too, so that you can look at your environment on an ordinary everyday level. Otherwise you could never pick a flower, eat an apple, or peel a potato. So just what is it that exercises all those different levels of control? If you know the answer to that question, get ready for a trip to Stockholm!