Descent of Consciousness · Capsule of Your Little Self
⁘ “Consciousness, the underlying potential. Awareness, our inner atmospheres. Cognition, mechanisms sorting out the structures of our existence. Neutral processes – there is no "you" there yet. Then we enter the shell of our mind and identity. We begin to self-recognize as a particular sentient being. We have entered the prison of subject assertion, into tunnels where we chase for our hopes and flee from our fears. Cognitive distortions follow.”
Consciousness,
the underlying potential,
nothing yet.
Awareness, our inner atmospheres,
fields hosting experience.
And cognition, the actual mechanisms
spelling out the details of our existence.
All of these, neutral processes –
there is no "you" there yet.
Then, we land into the shell,
the capsule of our mind and identity.
We begin to self-recognize
as a particular sentient being.
We latch on to a finite sampling of what is,
in order to ensure our cohesion.
Our attention is far removed
from the underlying conscious potential.
We are hardly aware of the textures and dynamics
of the space in which our experience unfolds.
Nor do we typically attend to the cognitive mechanics,
ongoing, underlying our interpretation of reality.
We have entered the prison of subject assertion,
entering tunnels where
we chase for our hopes and flee from our fears.
All of this results in
a significant field of cognitive distortions,
misinterpretations, as we project into being what is not.
Let us then reclaim
the full stack of our experience,
rise beyond the hypnosis of our becoming.