Little Conflict

Little conflict: 

there's little conflict for me, not between science and any spiritual thought, nor the so called :hard problem" of consciousness where it's debated on whether this sense of aware aliveness originates from - material means of brain and mind, or is it the very foundation of the universe, that everything possess the basic qualities of awareness. It isn't that I refuse to take a position on these matters, or not have a favored point of view. I certainly do and I would imagine that it would be fairly obvious to anyone who reads what I write that I tend towards a panpsychism outlook on consciousness, and that it stems from my own deeply felt experiences of being alive, aware, and of belonging so fully to a world that's awake to my presence as well. 

but I could be wrong. 

and really it doesn't matter much at all, not to me, really. My experience described above stands without need of reason or explanation. It simply is, and it matters not how this sense of belonging came to be. Science confirms my sense of a miraculous world, beginning from a pinpoint of energy to propulsion of space/time and eventual matter. Why should it surprise me that this process could somehow produce a universe that allows consciousness to appear? Similar with evolution, that nature is clever enough in random selection to reach a point that allows me to be aware. Of course this is plausible, perhaps likely, and it in no way invalidates the qualities of being aware. 

and so there's little conflict, none really, and all that matters is finding myself grateful for this moment, that I'm alive, aware, and so happy to find myself awake within the world. Science shows that none of this had to be, that any shift in infinite variables could have produced a universe of very different order, or chaos, or no universe at all. And yet, I'm here, we're here, and we share a wakefulness between us, a conscious gift of being able to appreciate the world we have. That's a miracle too, and the basis of any true awakening. 

I am, and that's enough for me to know, 

however it may have come to be. 

~

Peace, Eric