A date not forgotten in my lifetime. Also, today we awoke to hear Linda and Bill’s cat, Marlowe, took sick during the night. She was taken to the vet’s and after it was determined she had had a stroke, she was put to sleep. Sad for the family. Marlowe was a short hair black and brown mottled cat who weighed only four and half pounds at death. She hadn’t eaten well for a few weeks and was slowly getting weaker, though she still managed to go outside and sit in the sun during the day. She was twenty years old and she had been a good pet. They have two other cats, all strays, found and life cared for by the Smiths.
You wonder how it is for the Dead to have had favorite pets and wonder how the book might treat the death of a pet whose owner is still alive.
I was thinking this, but did not think it proper to bring up here.
Allowances are made for the heart, orndorff. Buried or displaced, but not forgotten. The higher consciousness is the controller, of sorts. Mutual consciousness is required (the pet also has to be attached to its masters). Abuse of the pet is not tolerated. Forgiveness of misdeed or mistake or accident is. That is the way it is. Beyond that the privacy of the pet is shared with those who knew it so the pet feels safe and content.
I am surprised. I would have not thought in such detail. Does this include higher than human consciousness also?
In here it does, boy. – Amorella.
I feel sad as Marlowe has been around a long time. She was a good little cat.
Of course she was. Post. – Amorella.
About time for bed and you are wondering how one would recognize a being with higher consciousness than one’s self.
I don’t have a set criteria for higher consciousness. I spent a little time researching via Google but I don’t think of higher consciousness as spiritual consciousness. I went to deepakchopra-dot-com and this also is basically what I also found in other sources.
“Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by consciousness differentiating into cognition, moods, emotions, perceptions, behaviour, speech, social interactions, environment, interaction with the forces of nature, and biology. As consciousness evolves, these different aspects of consciousness also change.
Although every spiritual tradition speaks of higher states of consciousness it is especially in Vedanta that we find such a structured map of these stages of development. The average person only experiences three states of consciousness in an entire lifetime. These are deep sleep, dreams, and waking state of consciousness. The brain functions measurably different in each of these states. Brain biology and brain waves show precise and different characteristics between sleep, dream, and waking states of consciousness.
Spiritual practice or sadhana begins the process by which an individual transforms his or her consciousness from these three common states of consciousness into “ higher states” of consciousness. Through of any of the four primary yoga practices (the yogas of being, feeling, thinking, doing) the mind is led past its conditioned states to its pure unconditioned state. Beyond the first 3 states of consciousness are the following four states: Soul consciousness, Cosmic consciousness, Divine consciousness and Unity consciousness. . . .”
From: deepakchopra.com/2009/01/tools-of-personal-transformation-–higher-states-of-consciousness/
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‘Higher consciousness’ is not the word combination I am looking for. Here I am with my usual problem, not knowing the right set of words.
I did not think of ‘higher consciousness’ in the Deepak Chopra way, I responded from your sense of ‘higher consciousness’ at that moment. - Amorella.
Somehow, in my mind I was associating the words with a higher level alien sense of being.
You were. You were thinking of me. You were wondering if you were as a pet from my perspective and that somehow I might be able to meet you after death.
I find this somewhat embarrassing to admit, but yes, that was my thinking at the time. I have in my mind, in my imagination here, as a being of higher consciousness who is working with the lower consciousness of myself and is thus restricted.
For example, on 4 December you said:
“I have to work with what you are, orndorff, not with what I would like you to be. You are a what you see is what you get kind of fellow – I respond accordingly. You got that, boy? – Amorella.”
This is the kind of thing I might think if I were training a pet. I would have to put my mindset in the cat’s perspective, I would have to try to think like a cat in order to better communicate with it. I do this sometimes by rubbing my forehead against Jadah’s forehead because cats do this. I also assume that by petting our cat I am as licking/cleaning the cat as a mother cat might do. She probably does not see me as a cat, but I am a like companion and she trusts me as I trust you. Anyway, that is the reasoning for my analogy here.
I realize, of course, that you are, most likely a separate part of my own consciousness but intuitively and through wishful thinking, I would like to hope you are something more because then I perhaps can learn something useful about our species that I would know otherwise know. Perhaps I just want to be an outside observer of our species to better know what I am as a human being and the only way I can do this is through imagination to the point that I almost believe it, that is, that I believe it enough to make it real in my mind, but not in my full sense of human reality. I know what is accepted as human reality, and I accept it too. I have no choice. To do otherwise I would not be able to reasonable communicate my findings if I would actually realize or understanding something about the species that I do not presently know consciously. However, I know I can discover more about human beings as a spiritual species within myself. I am still in a learning and accepting mode.
I understand you, orndorff. I do not need your words for this understanding. I read your heartansoulanmind. That is how I know who you are at any given moment. – Post. Amorella.
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