{"id":205,"date":"2013-10-09T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/growth-of-consciousness"},"modified":"2019-08-30T05:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T05:58:29","slug":"growth-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/10\/09\/growth-of-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth of consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"

On these days, I ask myself what I’ve learned, and often that prompts me to write. Sometimes it’s lessons. Lessons like, “Don’t think (often) about what other people are thinking<\/em>,” I believe such lessons help me grow.<\/p>\n

Growth means clarity of experience, a loosening of bonds, and a dispersal of questionable cargo. As I expand, I want to incorporate into my reality a larger scope of what it means to be. Sometimes (maybe often, I can’t positively say) the problem is a matter of perspective. As we grow, we either learn how to deal with a problem, or in the new now<\/em> the problem no longer applies. Personal growth, growth of consciousness, occurs through transdimensional arrays. I note that space is only a single paradigm of existence, and I’m conscious of it (cf. others, of which I’m not conscious).<\/p>\n

As I think about how wonderful consciousness is, I quickly move to thinking about how wonderful the world is, and existence too. It instinctively bothers me how far life has become, away from truth and meaning, and I imagine what it would take to fix this human problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On these days, I ask myself what I’ve learned, and often that prompts me to write. Sometimes it’s lessons. Lessons like, “Don’t think (often) about what other people are thinking,” I believe such lessons help me grow. Growth means clarity of experience, a loosening of bonds, and a dispersal of questionable cargo. As I expand, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,90,82,75,77],"tags":[],"metadata":[284],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-blog-posts","category-life","category-meanwhileii","category-perspective","metadata-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":105,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2014\/09\/25\/taylor-reading-hegel-on-sense-certainty\/","url_meta":{"origin":205,"position":0},"title":"Taylor Reading Hegel on “Sense-Certainty”","author":"Pala","date":"September 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Charles Taylor's reading of Hegel on \"sense-certainty\" is informed by his understanding of the intellectual ecosystem from which Hegel's philosophy grew, esp. the German Romantics. 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