The Free Radical

With all of the recent rain, the mushrooms have moved into overwhelm. It’s like an invasion… but a happy one.

Fields of Shaggy Manes and other unidentified monsters pop up all over the place like ideas in a fertile mind. Some of them seem boringly familiar while others seem alien and exotic… and possibly tasty.

“We are all connected.” The mycelial voice belongs to no one in particular; it is a manifestation of an unseen collective. “We are connected in consciousness… or we are separated in consciousness. Choice is a function of consciousness, and both are absolute.

“Consciousness cannot be deleted or erased from existence. Consciousness is existence. They are identical. Existence has no opposite; consciousness has no opposite. ‘Unconscious’ and ‘subconscious’ are aspects of awareness– a subset of consciousness.

“Everything occurs within consciousness… including all time and space. Consciousness does not magically or mysteriously arise from special configurations of matter and energy; it is not something generated. It was not suddenly created during that most magical of all ‘scientific’ events, The Big Bang. Consciousness is. Or if you prefer: consciousness = is.

“Allow what I have said to percolate through your consciousness. Arrange your consciousness in such a way that you are able to grasp the profound truth of it. Today’s discussion is the merest beginning. Consciousness is the whole deal; prepare to blow your own minds again and again and again– The Little Bang Theory. Haha!”