Consciousness

“ Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them .”

“ Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic .”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

I believe our default state is at the top of this map. When a child is born, they are pure presence. Unconditional love. Infinite possibility. Simply being. Expressions of God. This is our natural state. But through societal programming, conditioning, and trauma, we fall from the higher states down into fear, guilt, grief, and shame. These negat... See more