Sacred Geometry

 Our Brains:             

              Most of us don't know much about sacred geometry and that certainly includes me. I'm curious and want to learn more about it . We certainly can't learn a lot about everything, but our brains are hungry and sacred geometry may be very nutritious.

                That which we have called sacred geometry has affected much of our culture and, of course has been much affected by it. It has been felt much in astronomy, astrology, art, architeture, mathamatics, religion, philosophy and more.

                I am just begining to look into it. I have seen that it is very ancient and has had a strong effect on humanity around the world. There seems to be that which is very worthwhile in it.

You May Want More:               

                 With a stream of  thought here I hope to peak your curiosity. The stream will relate to connections to sacred geometry. I will not explain terms and names this time. You might want to check out some their meanings and perhaps even report on your findings in the "comments" section. A logarithmic spiral is an example of geometric progression; polar slope; Jacob Bernoulli; self-similarity; Hindu Garanthos; Manasa, ancient Hindu writings on architecture and design; integrations and connections of culture, the world, nature, being, and building; physical structure and music.

A Long and Varied History               

                 Plato and the Greek mystery schools thought of the Sacred Geometry as important 2,500 years ago. Hindu thinkers thought it important long before that. Others think so today. We could try to find out why. I can't do it all, I have other fish to fry. 

                I will more about this if you wish. You may find that my spellcheck is working better.

                The "comments" app here is working well. Comments are a great encouragement for me. At my age I need plenty of encouragement to keep me going.

                Thank you for reading!

 

                                                                                            rcs

Search This Site

EsoExo: Blog search

           For readers who are not familiar with the many search options available to them here, I will begin t to review some of them.

            It seems that blogs are so out of fashion that few remember how they may be fashioned. For example this blog is of three columns. I have used the central column as the place up to 400 essays or posts.

                An important function of the columns to the left and right of the central column is to offer you apps to help you find the essays which interest you. They are largely made up of search apps. However, they also contain other helpful apps.

             Let me begin with the column to your left on the main view of the page. On all of my blogs the this left hand column begins with the app which allows you to select the language in which to choose to read the post you select.

                Other apps you will find in this column may have a different order on each of the associated blogs. For example the next app might be "Associated Blog Sites to visit." To be transported to the one which interests you and be transported to it. The next app may be "Popular Posts." There you can find the names of up to four posts others have been finding interesting. Each name will be follow by a few words about it. click on that name and that post will appear. Next you may come to a title that reads "Pages." Click on one of the listings there and be taken to another page where you can find posts much like this one or different.

                The last listing in this column will usually be "Blog Archive." This can be a very useful app for you. Use it to become familiar with the essays and other posts available on this blog site. You will see a list of years and months. Click on one and you will taken to all of the posts published in that period. All are interesting and usually contain some hard to find YouTube videos which YouTube allows me to show.

                The right hand column usually begins with a search app, perhaps with the  title "Search This Site." There is a little window in which you may enter a word or phrase and then click on the word "Search." Try it and see what happens.

                I will leave this little post here for a few weeks and then move it to "Pages." You are now on the home page.

                This is a good place from which to comment.

                                                                                rcs

 

 

 

Exploring Mysty Roots of Irish Culture

Ireland and the Irish: Exploring ancient Irish history could lead us to a more realistic of our world and Earth.                           

 

                Remember the proper names in this video. They are threads to our past. The eastern Mediterranean connections have been firming. Early Geek connections are firming. Phoenician connections are firm to many.

                Remain open to verification and evidence to the contrary. My father who could claim two Irish surnames, claimed the he was the world's shortest giant. But then he claimed that the chick came from the yoke of the egg and not it's white.

                The believing game is good for we are surrounded by truth and the believing game may last the longest with the fewest losers. While cleaving to reality leads to sanity and a chance for wisdom.

                

                                                                        rcs

 

Choice

 EsoExo: We Don't Have to

 

We don't have to choose:

 

                ~ to be aware and informed.

 

                ~ to do the good that we can.

 

                ~ to understand and share.

 

                ~ the lovely and healthy.

 

                ~ to be more honest with ourselves and others.

 

But we can.

 

 

                                                                                rcs 

Golden Lid of Truth

EsoExo: Discovery, Purification, Awareness, and Reality

                 As a manner of speaking "the Golden Lid of Truth" might be a way a practitioner of the Janna Yoga of old would chose to approach this little essay.     

                I believe that in an English translation from the Rig Veda one may read something like this, "The truth is hidden by a golden lid; remove thou that lid." I also believe that a wise man once said "That which hides the truth is often the brilliance of the intellect." We can make up well reasoned stories, logical stories, probable stories. We might tell those stories to others, but mostly we tell them to ourselves. Those stories often put a lid on the truth; on reality. We are often not conscious, or completely conscious, of the workings of those stories. Sometimes a story comes from another. Sometimes it may hidden in a doing or happening of our culture and we are unconscious of learning from it.

                Stories are good. I like many of them very much. However, even the best of them may convey a distortion, a falsehood, a wrong, a lie. We interpret them as best we can. We benefit much by interpreting  them in the new light of our present knowledge.

                Reinterpretation may be a part of what I call a process of purification. The farther we work that process the closer we get to being able to lift the lid a bit more to see the wrongs for what they are and let in more honesty, reality, and truth into our lives. In the process we rid ourselves of  distortions and wrongs, better our mental health, and see more clearly. We can intend to embrace reality and to let more clarity of understanding into our lives.

                One comes to see more clearly and adopt the intention to embrace reality and to achieve more clarity and understanding. Still, I am reminded that I am on a good road and that it is a long one. We may find that distortions are woven into the wonders and beauties of our very culture. Our culture is the heart of our human society and the totality of its wonders and beauties remain.

                I am reminded that we are on a good road, but that it is along road. We may find that some distortions are woven into the wonders and beauties of our very culture. They are of our making. We can and do become aware of then. This discovery does not diminish those wonders and beauties. But it may help to remind us that the natural process of purification with which we seem to be choosing to co-operate is an ongoing process.

                We feel grateful when we become newly aware of a distortion or wrong in our thinking, and are pleased to proceed in our process of purification. We gradually rid ourselves of another wrong or falsehood. By small possibel steps we improve the quality of realityin our lives and find it good. As we proeed with our proess of purification, te closer we get to being able to lift the lid enough to see the wrongs for what they are and to letting more reality, truth, and honesty into our lives.

              Not every one of us has always chosen to call their process "purification" and there is no need for us to do so, but the word "purification" seems to me, to be appropriate. By our process we gradually (at times quickly) rid ourselves another wrong or falsehood. By small possible steps they improve the quality of reality in their lives and find it good. As they proceed with their process they become able to see wrongs for what they are, and and more able they are to lift the lid to let more honesty, reality, and truth into their lives.

                It is not easy. It's sometimes a joy. It can feel painful, but I have heard of no one dying from the process. Still we have stories we love and may resist any change in them. However, when we become aware of a flaw in one of  our stories, we can be aware that by a little change in perspective we can make that story more realistic, perhaps even true. We may find that we have been unconsciously struggling to keep a loved story intact. With that finding the struggle the struggle becomes conscious and so, more fair.    When we become aware that we are using a lot of energy to keep a story, we may find that we are trying to hold back a truth. We may come to consider a struggle to let the truth out more worth while. 

                Sometimes a mistaken idea caueses problems for years before we take note. In a way it seems like it is trying to be found, but that we don't want to see it. Struggles to hold back the truth may keep coming up for a time before we note them. It seems they are trying to be set right. We can get better at noting them. Sometimes a wrong in a story comes up so suddenly and forcefully that we cannot deny it. We come to welcome these new revelations, though it may still take some time to digest them. We do become more apt at accommodating them realistically. We find that approaching truth often frees us, makes us more able, and a bit stronger.

                The process is a kind of cleaning out of the mind and ought to be done often. There are lots of falsehoods coming toward us and a few manage to get in. We can become very willing to clean them out. We clean them out. Sometimes the process becomes less a throwing out and more a better arranging and filing, a straightening out and putting in better order. As we proceed we have less distortion and more useful reality. We become more honest with ourselves and with others. We often feel happier and healthier for doing so.

                Now all we have to do is consider the nature of our process and practice it. Being willing is a very good starting place because there are things to do. Awareness is an important part of the process. You are on the road when you are willing to be aware. As I write Ibecome more aware that I have a lot to remember and plenty toremember. Being willing is willing is an important early step. Being willing to notice "the lid" is helpful for some. You have the ability and most of the tools already; you can get ready to use them. There are lots of doings you have already done. They may include: being willing and able to detect a falsehood, note a lie, remembering a happening or doing, and much more. Being willing to let go of a wrong, the false, or the dishonest is good. Being willing to correct the distortion is good.      You might, for example, consider how they effected you personally. Becoming aware of letting go of a wrong, the false, the dishonest can be interesting. Being willing to correct a distortion is good. Being willing to co-operate with process of purification and realization is good.

 

                You can be aware of an inner or personal wrong and of a process of righting it. You can be willing to co-operate with your awareness and discovery. You can right a discovered wrong. You can straighten out a discovered distortion. You can be honest with yourself. You can tell yourself the the truth as best you can right now. You can right a wrong. You can be grateful for your process of awareness, discovery, and righting.

                Thanks for reading of the Golden Lid. Beneath the lid is the hidden. Lifting that lid leads to relavation. Your process can make that relavation golden.

                                                                                                rcs

This Web Site

 EsoExo: Use All the Search Apps You Want.

 

This web site does not yet have many posts or essays, but our associated sites may have over 400. This may be a good place to practice using our search apps to explore and find what you want and that which interests you.

                You may have noticed that this site has a three column configuration. All of our associated sites have a similar configuration. You are now on a middle/central column. The columns to the left and right of this column and mostly dedicated to search applications. However, there are also other kinds of apps. For example near, or at, the top of this site and all associated sites is a translation app. There you can find a language in which you prefer to read, click on it, and the post which you are on will be translated to your language before your eyes.

                I suggest that you take some time to explore the apps available to you. When you take a look at the translation application you might find it interesting to scroll to the bottom of the same column. There you will find a list of years and months. Click on a month of a year which interests you and the posts published at that time will be presented to you.

                If you have a difficulty with an app you may go to the "comments" app just below the bottom of this post. Click on it and space will appear where you can tell me about your difficulties, ask questions, make suggestions, or just make a comment. 

                Happy explorations and pleasant reading.

 

 

                                                                            RCS 

 

 

Meditation Chat (and Timer Dependency?)

 EsoExo: Its about meditating and mostly for those somewhat new to meditation

 

                 These sentences are intended for those who may begin to meditate and for those who may have thoughts of renewing their practice.

                Many of those who have meditated agree that both breath and alertness is important. There are those who believe both are important to life. Awareness of breath and and of breathing is useful to those who practice meditation. Remember to breath for a while. The quality of your breathing is worth consideration.

                Focus and the Improvement of focus has been the aim of many who practice meditation and is an aim of mine. It seems up to each to decide what is worthy of their focus. Many have said that breath counting be a useful practice and a way to improve one's ability to concentrate. Your ability to keep to the subject, to keep to the topic, and to stick to the issue may improve with your practice of meditation. Some have made breath following or breath counting an major part of their long term practice.

                I am narrowing the breadth of our view of meditation here with the aim of making our view both more comprehensible and more productive. Evens so, we can remember that meditation has, and has had, a broad range of differing goals, means, aims, and ways. Let me add here that I am not a teacher of meditation nor even an active practitioner of meditation. I have practiced meditation, found it useful, studied it a bit. It still has a place in my life.

 

On with my introductory words: 

                If I were to renew my practice right now, I might think "in" as I breath in and "out" as I breathe out. However, I could consider making some little decisions and moves first. I could make a time and place in which to meditate which pleases me. Some long time meditater might say that one may learn to meditate usefully and with satisfaction at any time and in any place. I believe that meditater is pointing toward a reality.

                However, I suspect that a good beginning for many beginners and for me, is probably best to aim to practice regularly in a place which feels comfortable and is fairly free of distraction. I am helped to good practice by knowing when and where I will do it. I have found that I could practice well on a quiet beach where the waves wetted my feet. But remembering that here in my home high in the Andes. I might better remember to practice if I determined to practice right after my morning physical exercise. When I am regular with my excise, meditating right after it could work well for me. As I like my meditation time to be quite and free from interruption, practicing just before going to bed could work well.

                Getting ready, willing, and able to practice may become a good practice in its self. I would like to sit up-right in, or on, a comfortable chair where I can maintain a good posture. Can that be difficult to arrange.I would aim to be awake, and alert in that chair. I would aim to attend to that which I am doing. I would like to feel mentally energetic as I avoid force and strain. I want to begin by paying attention to what I do and think. Maybe I should try letting this be a bit more simple.

                I would like to have a timer. O prefer to meditate with my eyes closed. I use a timer so that I do not meditate too long or do break off my practice too soon.

                These details are not rules and are not for every one or for every case. There are those who can meditate for two hours and then stop their practice at their predetermined time without outside help. They may not have been able to do that as beginners.

                Without the use of a timer I may stop a practice thinking I have meditated for an hour, to discover that I have only practice for ten minutes. At another time I may stop a practice to check a clock believing that I had meditated for half an hour, to find that I had meditate for an hour and a half! So, when I could, I have set a timer to sound at a time I had predetermined.

                If I were to begin a practice session right now, I would probably set a timer for about ten minutes. I feel I could meditate for that amount of time Without peeking to check the timer. When one has not meditated for some time, 20 minutes can see a long time. I seem to remember having completed 20 minutes of practice, judging that during that time had maintained close focus for only 3 or 4 continuous minutes and that I had done very well to have done so. I may have come to realize that now practice is bad when intentions are good. Practice itself can be the purpose. Sometimes I don't get my head all the way around that, but I do know  that the words come close to the reality.

                I have meditated walking, sitting on a rock, and while lying on my back in the floor, but find that sitting on a chair and maintaining good posture is usually best for me. Buddhist often call their contemplation or meditation time, sitting. They often do their sitting in a group. We can do ours as we will.

                I am remembering some very pleasant walking meditation. Walking practice can be rewarding and pleasant, but may seem very different from sitting. Sitting is not completely free from possible distraction, walking can be quite distracting. (Still attending to the distractions can be the focus of the practice.) The quiet of the beach including the sounds of the water can be a positive factor while walking with bare feet washed by wavelets of an early evening. The flat damp sand can be a help, but just putting on foot in front of another can be distracting, but can also become an important part of a practice. I think that I began by counting my steps as I attended to it 1,22,3,4 and 1,2,3,4 and 1. 2. 3. 4.

                I may be distracting us a bit now. Let me focus on you. I will suggest a little homework for you You won't get into trouble if you fail to complete it. If you do complete it you will probably do so before I complete mine.

Ready to Practice:

                Sit where you are less likely to be disturbed. Have a way to time your practice. Have a clock on the wall or on a table where you can see it, or a watch on your wrist is fine. You can open your eyes to see if you have meditated an hour too long. Aim for a ten minute practice and determine to complete it. Each moment of your practice is important.  Attend to them. Sit where you can check the time without getting up.

                You are about to practice meditation with determination.

                Do this; sit well. Close your eyes and take a few comfortably deep breaths. Note breathing in. Note breathing out.  Let yourself begin some more regular breathing. Slow and a bit deeper than usual is OK. Notice breathing in and breathing out. Attend to your inhalations and exhalations. Now, breath in and out, that's one. Breathe in and breathe out, that's two. Breathe in then out, that's 3, Now, breathe in and out; that's 4, and completes this round. Continue completing rounds of four until this practice until ten minutes have past and this practice is complete. You could have counted rounds of four to see how many of them there are in a ten minute practice. You have attended to what you were doing and maybe to how you were feeling. No need to watch yourself attending.

                Hey, if you really completed the above, congratulations! You have practiced meditation. 

                Did you sit with a straight spine? Did you have pain to avoid? Did you move around a bit to avoid discomfort? If pain becomes truly disturbing you can start repeating rounds of "Good Posture; no pain."

                Check the clock. You may not have completed what you set out to do. This is not just a bit of bad humor. An important part of most practice is to faithfully complete that which you have set out to do.

                Do try not to stop too soon. It's not a crime to check a time piece to see how you are doing. You are the boss, commander, and beneficiary of your practice. When you have completed a practice, take some time to consider how you feel. You deserve congratulations for each and every practice you complete. Congratulate yourself.

                When you feel bad,truly bad after a session, it may have been a practice truly bad for you. I may be best not to repeat that same practice again soon. Take some time to consider it; you may note parts to keep, change, or not to visit again before a couple of years pass. It's good to have a congenial practice or three around to take the place of one dropped or just for a good change. When you do begin a new practice it is good to decide/determine how long you will try it before considering another change. You may find it best to stick with a new practice for around six or seven sessions before making a change.

                As you counted your rounds in your original practice experience, when was your breath warm and when cool? How did it feel? How did the air feel moving through your nose. Weird? Good? Did you breathe out by way of nose or mouth? How did the air feel moving into your lungs? Did you keep counting? Did you finish your ten minutes?

                Review your experience, think about it. If you felt good enough about it, you could determine to keep at it for, say, three times a week for three weeks. Then you could decide where to go from there. It is good to explore a variety of practices. It may be best to stick with each for a number of weeks before deciding what to do next and perhaps how to do it. When experiences feel great, you can stick with them for awhile and perhaps return to them year after year.

                Congratulations for beginning to explore meditation! Why not congratulate yourself for that which you have begun to learn about yourself and your meditation. You might find that you can rake a sort of mental picture of your experience, so that you can compare it to other doings. 

            You can learn more about meditation and the practice of it online, in books, in a group, with a coach, and in other meditation posts on this blog. You can learn a great deal from observing your own practice.

                I believe that completing that which you intend to do is a valuable part of your practice. Do not intend too much, but to complete that which you in tend to.

                When all or part feels bad for you it may very well be bad for you, It is probably bad for you at the time. At some other it may not be so bad for you, or maybe become just right. When feels good for you it probably is good for you just now.

                Search this blog for other posts on meditation practice. You can also find another meditation blog which is good for you. It may be good for us too, please tell us about it. Check out the "comments" section just below. Start by clicking on "comments" or on "no comments."

                Thank you for the visit. Please stay for a while and come back soon.

 

 

                                                                    rcs

               

                 

Capacity for Careful Thought has Diminished Among Too Many of US

 Willingness is a Good Start      

              

We can do better:

              Perhaps from the lack of good reading, good conversation, and good teaching our capacity for careful thought has diminished. Now, among us, there seems to be less resistance to deceit and delusion than ever. We have strayed from well founded thinking, and instead of practicing sane judgement, have become subject incredulity, indignation, fear, false shame, hypocrisy, pride and, I have run out of breath.

                It seems that from our pride and lack of care for ourselves, we have failed to allow ourselves to strive to do that which is useful for others and pleasant for ourselves.

                We seem to have forgotten the meaning of work, although we often put much thinking and sweat into our doings.

      

We sometimes neglect teaching our children and youth to:

~ be cautious in sex and not to be promiscuous.

~ be outwardly courteous to all, but inwardly to remain free and never to put too much trust in anyone or any thing. This while remembering that if one has so little faith in the light switch that one does not use it, one may remain in the dark.

~ love work because it is useful and pleasing, and not because of payment by others, but rather for the joy the find in their work.

~ be open to new thoughts and new learnings.

~ devote some time to considering and reconsidering: emotions, feelings, doings, happenings, and processes.

~ remember that reality is the way to sanity and that the road of honesty may serve almost as well.

~ let their doings be useful to others and pleasing to themselves.

~ love and respect their parents as they learn to see them realistically.

 

                As a gift to ourselves, we can try to reconstitute or to fortify our capacity for careful thought with the following doings:

~ Develop our willingness to be more aware of our actual state of being, including feelings, emotions, and understandings.

~ Taking time for quiet contemplation of that which recently has been important. This is not a time for figuring things out.

~ Arrange opportunity for relaxed, thoughtful conversation or reading.

 

                Thank you for reading.

 

                                                                        

                                                                                                                           rcs  

Way of Learning

 Esoteric to Exoteric: Learning/teaching/culture. Learning Activity

 

                A teacher's activity and the activity of a student both have esoteric facets. Nevertheless, most of us have important understandings of both learning and teaching.

                A teacher arranges data, facts, information, and knowledge for students to do the same for themselves and for others. Also a teacher aims aims to avoid damaging a student's motivation. It's the transmission of culture.

                A teacher helps students to use logic, definitions, and analysis to their benefit and the benefit of their world. Who was it that said teaching is easy?

                Good teacher's words are often like tiny seeds which may be held in many different hands and are pregnant with meaning. A simple utterance, like "The beginning is half of the whole." may confuse one for a time, but later help that one through difficult times. 

                A teacher's words may be powerful and impart power, and being so, also be dangerous. A good teacher offers them as tiny, easily controlled sparks which may, in time, spark a productive fire which makes a smith's fire seem small.

                To be a truly good learner or disciple, is to be heard by the teacher. Too be heard the pupil must speak. The teacher is a reacher. A teacher wants to extend himself or herself to the learner. Good teachers and good students must both be good listeners. Good listening is not easy. That good teacher wants to be prompt to hear, to listen, and to understand. A hard job, a difficult one. But, first the disciple must speak; often not an easy task. Even so it is best that the disciple speak well. Disciple and master desire to retain and preserve in memory the better part of that which is heard and to understand it. Each interprets and probably reinterprets.

                A good student dismisses nothing which is taught until the the rudiments are mastered. It can sometimes seem much to swallow. But one does well to first try to ingest or create a kind of framework for those rudiments. It's okay to swallow a bit of framework; try it you may like it. I once thought of it as a set of hooks that I could hang stuff on and not let it just fall out of my mind. It an organizing feature early on. I could hang similar stuff on the same hook or on near hooks. They were there for me to use, check out, and from time to time to say something like, "Ah, I see!  

                Sometimes just one interesting fact or piece of information may be held as a kind of magnet for related information until some organization emerges. That organization can be the beginning of one of a student's frameworks. That framework as a student owns it, ought to be kept flexible. A student may come  to love a "framework" that has proven useful in her life only to find she has to let go of it and to replace it with one more realistic. Learning can be difficult and relearning no easier. 

                As life goes on, a learner may find that he has made useful places to hang, some say attach, new information and new understandings of a similar or corresponding nature. He may find hat he has created a place to do analysis.

                As one observes one's learning one may see something like the above happening much on its own. Co-operating with that happening can often be a productive practice.

                The good teacher may offer a ready-made framework as part of a lesson on, say, analysis. The good student is grateful.

                Thank you for reading.

                                                                        rcs

        

Unique One

Esoteric to Exoteric: Permit me to say:

             
            You are a unique, distinguished individual with a meaningful existence. You are responsible for the nature of the meaning in your life. That which you can offer to our culture is offered by no other!
             

            We are each, in an important sense, irreplaceable. There is no one like you or like me.

             We are individuals who can be very powerful in cooperation. We each, in our own way know how to co-operate. With co-operation we multiply our ability to do.

 

 

                                                            rcs 

 

With No Student There Is No Teacher

Esoteric to Exoteric: Teacher and student

 

            A teacher arranges data, facts, information, and knowledge for students as an aid for them to do the same for themselves and for others, a teacher helps students to use logic, definitions, and analysis.

              A good teacher's words are like tiny seeds which may be held in the most work-worn or the tiniest hands, and are pregnant with meaning. A simple utterance such as "The beginning is half of the whole" may confuse a man for a moment, but may serve him well at the most difficult times of his life. A teacher's words may be dangerous, but a good teacher offers them as tiny easily controlled sparks which in time may come to make the the smith's fire look small.

             To be a truly good learner or disciple is to be heard by the teacher. The teacher is a reacher. She wants to extend herself to the learner. A good teacher wants to be prompt to hear and listen effectively, but first the disciple must speak. Disciple and master both desire to better retain and preserve in memory that which is heard. All interpret.

            A good student dismisses nothing which is taught until it's  rudiments are entirely mastered. It may seem like trying to swallow the configuration whole at first, but try it you may like it. Consider making a framework of the whole yours, than as life goes on you may have a useful place to attach, some say hang, new information and understandings among, or even connected to, information and understandings of a similar nature.

            Thank you for reading.

                                                                                rcs

 

Your Awareness

Esoteric to Exoteric: A few slightly esoteric thoughts about awareness. A hello to awareness.

    

You might awaken your awareness just by reading the following:

~ You can be more aware of that which you tell yourself.

~ You can open and expand your awareness.
 

~ You can move up to a wider view of awareness.
 

~ You can find useful information in your awareness.
 

~ You may sense an area of greater inner openness and wholeness in your awareness.
 

~ Your moving into a new level awareness can entail useful grieving.
 

~ You can be more alert to moments of joy  and experience "aha" moments in your awareness.
 

~ and like that.

 

                Try rereading the first item above. 

 

 

                                                                Richard

 

A Brief Intro to Awareness

Esoteric to Exoteric: attempted with the word "awareness"

 

Awareness:

~ We may experience changing states. One change of state we may notice from time to time is an opening of awareness.

~ Early awareness could include an identification with appearances.

~ Another awareness may lead  to noting an individualizing process.

~ One may note a gradual awakening.

~ One may come to note turning consciousness to the "levels" upon which one actually lives and functions. 

 

                The word "awareness" comes from the word, aware. "Aware" comes from the word "ware" which we hear little these days. It means watch, be on one's guard, and take care; so, has to do with consciousness. "Aware" means having knowledge, perception, or realization. Check out some of its synonyms. Additional meanings include having knowledge and cognizance. It is much about having knowledge and understanding. But it may refer to a process and more.


                                                                                        by Richard Sheehan