An Experience of Altered Consciousness

Good morning and welcome to the show. today we will be discussing consciousness a very deep and confusing subject for many. the thing to remember is that while it is a lot of fun to go and ponder these mysteries it is only using up your time that you have to question and doubt what is around you. while it is fun, all it lets you do is enjoy a game and if that is all you want go ahead and play but that is not what gives me the most joy in life.






An Experience of Altered Consciousness

Consciousness comes in many forms and one of mine was especially interesting to me. For no particular reason whatsoever I decided to stay awake as long as I could. The task became very challenging as time drew out and I can say for most certain it was an altered state. It may seem strange that I would do this maybe even crazy but I believe that experiencing different states is a key element in understanding them.
The day started off in a normal way it was only as encountered the early morning that i experiencing difficulty. As I made it into the next day I decided to watch the sun rise. While I cannot accurately describe the sheer beauty or exuberance of the moment, it was as if my soul was being filled with light. Not only was there joy and love but that I should experience these things. As the day progressed things continued to go well I spent the entire day enjoying it for what it was another day in my tiny little life. that night I stood up for myself in a way that I would not normally do and as I worked into the next day as I was walking home at three a.m. the sky and the street lights looked so beautiful. It was like looking at the most breathtaking landscape and then realizing that id been there all my life. It was a beautiful end to a beautiful day and one that I would never trade away.
It is only when we let ourselves see the complex metropolis as a living breathing moving thing in and of itself that we accept the world for what it is. This look through a different state makes for an amazing revelation in the soul it helps the individual seek out the good to find things that spread joy and that is something we all need more of. To live a life and find the good
in it, to go through this experience and learn something about it and even better to learn something about myself. I have spent the last thirteen months going over and over in my mind as to why this all is happening. Sometimes it helps sometimes it doesn't but other states show a different side to the world and that has the power to let you see the beauty in what’s around you and let the world be as you see it and to just ride the wave.
There are many ideas and theories as to why we exist, and why we think, and why we do all of the things that we do. That will not do anything for us. The thing that needs to be looked at is whatever builds you up. Whatever you do in this world that will make you feel more complete and once you find it you have to grab hold and never let go. The great depression epidemic in this country is fueled by a failure to do whatever it is that completes you. That is where the true failure of our culture lies. No longer do we take the time to enjoy the world we keep running to catch the water at the end of the mirage and it just isn’t there. Many of our problems could be solved if we took the time to find what we really want to do.
In conclusion it is important that I make myself clear as to my aim what does this knowledge pose to let me gain. How can my understanding be of any use to myself or on a larger scale how can my understanding help unravel problems for the masses? And there seems to be a relatively simple answer to these questions; for me and for the rest of the world that I touch it helps show how to just live in enjoyment of each moment of my microscopic second that is my life. There seems to be a lot in this world that I do not understand but that’s all right this moment is happening exactly how this moment is happening and that is what I took away from my experience. That it is all right for things to keep going and that you can’t stop what’s coming, trusting that you can deal with whatever comes next is the largest boulder to set down. I hope
that you understand the peace I speak of if you don’t I do hope it comes to you. I have enjoyed your class very much thank you for all of the thought you have stirred up.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;

Alexander Pope, "Eloisa to Abelard"