Claudiu's Journal

It is astounding to see how simple it all really is –

The entire point, the actual point of being conscious, the ‘reason’ of being conscious, is nothing other than - to enjoy being conscious! That is the ‘why’ of why consciousness exists

And so when not currently feeling good – the only thing to do is to get back to feeling good! Back to enjoying and appreciating. There is nothing else to actually do!

It just does not make sense to do anything other than get back to enjoying and appreciating, because enjoying and appreciating is the actual point, the purpose, of being conscious. Why would anything do anything other than fulfil its actual purpose?

It also increasingly strikes me that many things are actual that I did not think were actual before. I had some sort of thought that only the physical is actual, and the mental, or mental processes happening, is somehow “less actual” than physical things. This is silly seeing that consciousness is obviously actual (obviously in a PCE)

But it also struck me that, for example, a state of being focused is also actual (or at least has an actual component underlying it, if not in a PCE (in a similar way that even being conscious as a feeling being is only possible because of the actual basis of an actual flesh and blood body being alive)). The mind being focused on a task is different than the mind not being focused on a task, these are actual differences and both actually exist.

And in a similar way, for example a context at work also is actual. There are actual other people, actual memories and information stored in their actual brain cells, that get activated appropriately in response to various things, all of which contribute towards a common goal. These things are all actually happening, and are tangible, in a way that I am thinking is fundamentally similar to an object physically existing. Albeit perhaps a bit different – a whirlpool of water is an actually-existing thing, even though it is really just the process of the actual water swirling around that forms the whirlpool. But a whirlpool is different than water that is still.

So even though ‘me’ as an employee or ‘my boss’ as a ‘boss’ or ‘the company’ as an ‘entity’ that ‘I’ work for are not actual (those are all part of the real world), there is an actuality of the association of these various flesh and blood bodies actually working together that is actual.

All delightful and fascinating to contemplate! The first part is the crucial part though – the point of being conscious is to enjoy being conscious :grin: .

I experience myself as getting ever-closer to actually self-immolating. It is very different now, it’s no longer about rushing, or cajoling myself into doing it, or feeling like I ought to do it. It’s more like a wonderful and almost overwhelming aspect of being alive is accessible that is like a flowering wondrousness or magicality that is all-absorbing and fascinating in its imminent and immanent significance. It really is rather hard to put into words!

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