Thursday, June 11, 2009

Six Senses


Awareness is an acknowledgement of self-existence, our surroundings, moments, time, and place. Consciousness in an entity of mind departed from awareness for a specific purpose. Our awareness awakens our conscious to experience, experiment, and organize. We live every day by being aware of all that we see, feel, touch, smell, and hear. We prepare and complete our task or project. We go through all the open doors and pass by the close ones. The routine goes on until one day our expectations are interrupted by some unforeseen reality that triggers our conscious to react. In this sense, expectation represents perception. For instance, if you happened to find out that a close door is your way from point A to B at a particular time, your level of awareness of that door and possibly all other close doors would rise to your level of consciousness. Then, you would begin to explore all sorts of qualities of your mind to approach to that door. You will ask yourself: is it locked and where is the key to get it opened? At that point, you spontaneously will go from an inductive reasoning to an abductive reasoning. That kind of transformation does not require a great deal of intelligence, but a mentally and psychologically structured organization and relationship to a particular situation. It is a perceptual change that can challenge beliefs, values, and attitudes and raise the question of who we think we are and what is real. If we were to rely simply on awareness, we would still be able to differ between right and wrong, grow personally and spiritually, love one another, esteem ourselves, overcome fears, feel pain, and develop cognitively, but the universe would be full of uncertainties. I believe a lot of great minds have evolved only through some level of consciousness. It keeps us focus and directs our attention on what matters. It is how some theories, inventions, and paradigms come about, great books are written, knowledge is transmitted, and cultures are built. Consciousness reveals true characters. When God in Exodus 3:14 said to Moses I AM WHO I AM, Moses became more aware of Him then, but after Moses crossed the wilderness of the Red Sea to escape Pharaoh’s army, he became very conscious of some characteristics of God. Prior to this class and reading several essays about transformation and culture, I was simply aware of many aspects of them, but as I continued to read, I have become more conscious about my culture and other cultures.

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