What is consciousness and what is the human soul?

Big questions, and I realize that I'm just a guy who bought two years of hosting and can draw and write pretty well. So my ego's foolish enough for me to give it a shot.

I don't think these are "things" but rather "actions". Consciousness is what the brain is doing. Consciousness is a verb.

So, this action is what's going on from some point when you're in your mother's womb to your death. It is a performance. You are an act. A role.

A human is being.

And its weird because we think of a person as a thing, but forget how this "thing" is based on time. Consciousness is happening, not TO you. But it also IS you. Again, the metaphor of performance.

It's sort of like light: sometimes it acts like a wave, sometimes a particle. This depends on what sort of experiments you do to it.

And maybe we're sort of like light. We are a thing. We are an action.

So what are you gonna do? Dance the cosmic dance? Be? Do? Lose yourself in the action? Or is the action the self?

Why don't you just have a seat and breathe. That's what Buddhist Monks do, stop the action. Why? Because action is karma, and it just keeps you stuck on a hamster wheel, always running, going nowhere. Ego is action.

And what's left? I don't know, probably the human soul. Which is probably an action too, because its weightless (some doctor in the old days weighed a person just before they died and right after). It is happening. By what? "God" would be a good answer, but intangible things like "god" and "the human soul" are just place holders for "I don't know", especially in a blog that's trying to use some sort of reason.

(This is why Christendom has its sacraments or "mysteries".)

But, then again, I'm a guy who draws funny books and manages to sound smart every now and then.

But we all know its just an act.

Labels: philosophy