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Chrysalis-Lyn In reply to charmedstudio [2018-03-20 15:12:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for giving me the opportunity! I truly appreciate your kindness

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Chrysalis-Lyn In reply to Andibi [2018-02-21 01:35:17 +0000 UTC]

These were great fun to paint! I'd like to think of consciousness as diffuse & monstrous, with many slippery appendages. Thoughts seem to materialize out of nowhere; they are fragile, but oftentimes they feel almost palpable to me. Lately, I've been listening to lectures about the nature of consciousness - it is such a glorious mystery! Neuroscientists & philosophers have posited many different hypotheses, though none are recognized as objectively true.

I recently discovered the word "qualia," which refers to instances of subjective experience (e.g. the particular way that you respond to a color or a sound.) I love that qualia resembles a mixture between "quality" & "aria" - as though life itself is a musical composition, just with different instrumentation depending on your perspective.

There is also the concept of Panpsychism - the notion that consciousness exists within everything. I've always found this to be a beautiful, non-exclusionary way of looking at the world, which gives even the simplest of lifeforms & objects a kind of sanctity.

Thank you for taking the time to engage with such an abstract, enigmatic concept! The sheer unknowability of it makes me giddy

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Andibi In reply to Chrysalis-Lyn [2018-02-22 00:40:41 +0000 UTC]

I have to agree with your conception of consciousness -- We tend to think of  consciousness as finite and discrete, with clear borders that extend only to the limits of our physical bodies (and our egos).  But it's probably more accurate to say that what we think of as "I" is in reality part of a much larger entity.  And that would include not only animate things, but also trees, rocks, plastic bottles, etc.  Consciousness, it seems to me, is the energetic expression of Spirit and the interface between the tangible and the ethereal. 

The idea that consciousness inhabits everything is a core tenet of shamanism.  I've done a lot of reading in that subject and I have to say that it's really appealing in it's non-anthropocentric outlook.   All things (and quite a bit then some) are God, if you will

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Chrysalis-Lyn In reply to K-Zet [2018-02-21 01:03:54 +0000 UTC]

I kept splattering color onto these two pages until I felt contented - it's miracle the paper didn't break! I'm beginning to think my experience of passion is synonymous with how I paint rainbows Thank you!

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