Tag: consciousness

This is where we start to think about what we have perceived. All too often we make a value judgement about it.

For example, if perception has recognised a cardboard moving box, then consciousness might say ‘That could be useful – unless it’s the one already filled with my books, in which case I must be careful trying to lift it’.

Disambiguation: I use ‘consciousness’ to mean personal mentation – not to be confused with Great Consciousness, which is the storyteller of ALL stories, thus shaping all of existence.

First sight and second thoughts

A concept from some books by Sir Terry Pratchett: First sight is when you see what is actually there, rather than what you want or expect to see. Second thoughts are those you have about what you are thinking, i.e. a kind of self-monitoring to catch prejudiced, conditioned or simply unhelpful or nasty thinking.

How to ride out a storm

Let overwhelming things, and your emotional and energetic reactions to them, flow through you without resistance, just as the air lets the sleeting rain pass through it.