Measured

Measured: 

it doesn't have to be like us - consciousness measured against our own beliefs, and viewed through a very human lens. Life is varied in expression, and in no way meets a certain criteria of being. Our expectation seems to be that the consciousness of other lifeforms should be similar to ours, however remotely, and only then be considered valid on their own. 

life is measured by degrees of separation. 

yet nothing truly can be viewed apart from us. We are joined by consciousness, as life itself, and all that varies is the form of its expression. It's not a valid question to ask how similar or different another being is from us. Life is true only to it's own expression, and has no cross of standards to bear. There's nothing for it to prove. 

in this sense, science is subjective, no matter how it wishes to be viewed. Everything is touched by the consciousness of its existence. To believe that we can examine the world apart from this is simply wrong. We see from consciousness, aware, and nothing is found separate from this. Science is the study of life conducted by itself. How could this ever be objective? 

the common belief is that we are special, life, but somehow given more. Through this lens we view the world. This, more truly, is our original sin, the gained knowledge that removed our innocence from the garden. We believed that we inherited the earth, and missed the gift of our real belonging. We are very much the earth, made of similar ground, touched by just one air. 

our inheritance is our belonging. 

life, than, isn't really measured - there are no lines drawn through consciousness, nothing found separate from our awareness. Our current view is turned around. We aren't conscious beings, special in this certain way. We are consciousness expressed as individual beings, aware aspects of the whole. Through this view we find the world inclusive, without true measure. 

we are conscious...

and everything belongs. 

~

Peace, Eric