1). Consciousness is not life. Consciousness is a sensory experience. Your consciousness is not real. It is a fleeting experience that is the equivalent of a dream state of being. Your consciousness is a biologically driven experience. Consciousness is made up of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. Consciousness is also made of up of memory and thought. Our consciousness is most sustainably strong when our biological needs are accurately and effectively tended to. This reduces the biological skew of survival from our consciousness and allows us to utilize it with a more flexible and fluid creative imagination. The more our biological needs are neglected the more urgency will come to bear on our consciousness limiting our perception.
2). Your consciousness is highly overrated. Consciousness ends when our biological bodies are not able to sustain it. Our biology wants us to survive thus placing an importance in our self perception that is not accurate to reality. We want to believe we will go on being conscious after our biology because our biology wants to continue. While your consciousness plays a vital ethical role in the experience of your biological existence, your individual conscious experience is experienced as important because your biology depends on it for survival.
3). Death is the consciousness experience. There is only consciousness in death. In life there is only life as it is. Life is eternal. Death is not. When we are born we think we are born into life. In actuality we are born into death. Life is not a living experience, but rather a death experience. Life is the the oneness of all things. Life is everything in its perfect place. Death is separation. Death is the defiance of the oneness of life. Death is the individuation of experience. Death is the dissonance. We left life when we were born and we will return to life when we die. Life never ends. Even in death we are not fully separated from life. There is no true death. There is only true life.
Written for Writing a Philosophy of Death taught by Charles Mudede on 5.19.2023
Art: Death by Siolo Thompson, Original Piece from the Linestrider Tarot Deck
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