Our normal walking around consciousness, whatever its origins, is feeble in comparison to the experience of its emergent integration with the electro-magnetic flux that is the reality around us at all times. Thats why zen monks gaze at walls and why Christ alegedly said, “If you want to enter the kingdom of heaven you must become as little children.” i.e. experiencing the moment directly with very little or any abstraction diminishing it. We live in a scientific, reductionist abstract age that often gets in our way. Don’t get me wrong I’m four square for science its just that I’m for the dynamic, open minded, non-grasping kind of science that historically has been the kind that preceedes scientific breakthroughs. As I like to say, “Science is necessary, delicious and potentially wonderful…and it exists entirely within the digestive tract of Wisdom.”

Today we are afflicted by both bodily metabolic inflexibility and mental inflexibility. What we need to strive for is the kind of mental flexibility that enables us to utilize both the abstract/thinkingness aspect of our consciousness and the direct lookingness mode of same. As Einstein said, “The mind is a wonderful gift, but a poor master.”