| Subject: Conscious Matter and Other Matters |
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Cassie
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Date Posted: 20:55:18 06/30/01 Sat
In reply to:
Kyla
's message, "Re: The NOW/NOW me and the THEN/NOW me," on 18:54:33 06/30/01 Sat
There is a local individual sense of "me" that disappears in Consciousness AND in Matter. A great many people have explored realms of Consciousness that I have not even begun to fathom but I am discovering there is also a similar depth in Matter.
Deidra, when you talked about sitting in Being as a young girl it brought back memories of Rocks I have sat with. Animals too, but Rocks! I remember two Rocks in particular, one was a large Stone where I used to rest, halfway through the woods to my friend Anne's house. It was quite a personal friend and I always felt that it was alive and had feelings just like people. Of course I learned better later. Hmmmm...
The other Rock was a ledge that hung out over a small cascading stream in the canyon of the woods between my friend's house and mine. This Rock had magical qualities. It was difficult to get to and a little scary to sit on, but...fairies lived there and all sorts of incredible wispy unseen creations...and the Rock itself, a thin-layered ledge suspended over water...was utterly magical.
And why I am rhapsodizing over Rocks, I am not sure, but it has something to do with the depth and Consciousness of Matter. There is a kind of altered shamanic sort of state that I have been exploring mainly while reading a book by Arnold Mindell called "Dreaming While Awake". This involves an awareness of a layer of Conscious Matter underlying our usual everyday waking state. It is an embedded state without boundaries where I utterly lose my sense of "me" and fall into a wordless enmeshed warm connection with everything around me.
The consciousness of Things is very slow, very heartful, and immensely wonderful to feel. I'm sure you've felt it too. Sitting somewhere by a stream or river or lake, perhaps, feeling into the connectivity of all things on a pre-verbal but quite conscious level. It's difficult to put into words, but I think, its quite a common state. Can you get a sense of what I'm trying to say here? Does this resonate in your body,experiences, or memories? If so, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
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