Is Consciousness the Way Out / In?

Is Consciousness the way out / in?…many of us try with all our might to believe that there is a single will, an entity, that has the last word on everything.

Many believe that by supplicating or cracking the secret code of this entity – just as knowing the correct password will give us access to a computer’s hard drive – we can thereby avail ourselves of a kind of insurance policy against the Unknown and thereby help ourselves to avoid the aches and pains of uncertainty.

What if we consider the contrary idea that it’s really all chance…that this whole thing that we call the Universe could be wiped out or changed just like that. Is this kind of infinite randomness good or bad, and does offer a way to awake from our unregenerate sleep? In this case our God-image would be the fact that we can reason and love in spite of the (apparently) whimsical nature of things. “Nothing is but that thought (faith, thought, whatever) makes it so!”

Maybe it’s our self-consciousness; our relative nature that is our ticket out of sleep and mortality. And maybe the last step in that process has everything to do with math and ratio, as Lord Kelvin indicated when he assured us that when you really know something you’ll be able to express it in numbers —except maybe for art, God and all that other good stuff. But then again, maybe even these entities/issues/constructs have a rational side!