The Consciousness Question

An encounter with a tiny ant prompts this writer's preoccupation with the state of being.

Are we progressing as humans when there is so much violence in the world?

Given the incredible range of dog personalities and behaviors, individual owners also cannot help but interest one as personalities.

By continuing to live an active life as long as physically possible, the mind intensifies its quest.

The Utopian concept of human consciousness seems extremely foreign nowadays.

Morality and love are states of mind which, nowadays, neither all human beings nor all religions recognize as the prime spiritual aspects of human conscious.

Does a preordained power we call destiny control both the nature of the events that occupy our lives and the resulting planned or spontaneous actions we take?

There is a natural tendency with age to live too much in the past.

In contemporary world culture the philosophical concern of the mystery of both animal being and human being seems to have little credence.

The two aspects of human consciousness that must be experienced and their psychological significance personally understood if one is to become psychically whole.

This is a fair enough question to ask nowadays, given the apparent lack of wisdom in both the statements made and the policies followed by so many of the world’s leaders.

Hope remains, psychologically, a paradoxical mental phenomenon.

What is the difference between man-made musical sounds and the constant presence of worldly sounds that occupy consciousness almost around the clock?

There is no guarantee you will ever completely know just who and why you are.

Solitude. Discovering the essential nature of one's individuality.

Has the vast range of information available these days intensified a general level of curiosity or not?

Music evokes an awareness of mystical ‘truths’ that lie beyond the existential reality.

Such is the journey of human consciousness.

Are the haphazard workings of ‘Chance’, or the purposeful and controlling ‘forces’ of some cosmic ‘Design Intelligence at work in Nature?

Are we, as a species, evolving in terms of moral sensibility…or devolving?