Sonnet (9): The Gold of the Alpha & the Omega

The clutching leaves, once green with greed, now fall In solemn showers, Nature’s second gold, Verdure perfected, venerable and old; A onetime fire, held in seasoned thrall Whose ancestor was gold celestial: Daughter of warmth amidst the bitter cold Of light in darkness, neither young nor old Ever budding out of death: renewal A gold…

Consciousness and its Transfiguration (3): The Reversal of the Will and its Apotheosis

A third stage of enhancement of consciousness consummates the reversal of the will that was discovered as a possibility in the last post. At that time, the will was largely regarded implicitly. It was conceptualised as the active force that lent life and purposefulness to the activity of thinking. Now, however, the roles of thinking…

Consciousness and its Transfiguration (2): Second Enhancement, the Reverse-Will, Narcissism

A second stage of heightened attention provides for the discovery of another state of consciousness beyond the first enhancement, which was treated in an earlier post.  The former will be the topic of the present post. Ordinary thinking is vague and capricious. One may, however, take initiative to transform this condition. Such an initiative would…

Consciousness and its Transfiguration (1): Introduction, Preliminaries, Ordinary Consciousness and the First Enhancement

Introduction Awareness is a condition for consciousness and experience as sound is a condition for a piece of music. Consciousness and experience, in turn provide the ground for all other endeavours of human life, including science, knowledge, and philosophy. The results of such an intensification consist in three states of consciousness that transcend the ordinary…