Why Goldfish Never Die. by Brian McCully

Author:Brian McCully [McCully, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy, Meditation, Life
Goodreads: 25382515
Published: 2015-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

THE THRIVING PLENTY

Of course another reason why our minds seem to be so restless, so filled with racing, chasing thoughts – is that we really are just way too busy – we’ve got too much going on and too much to think about to ever stay put or to stay with any one thing for too long.

Did you know that scientists have estimated that if you were to add up all the things happening to us – and begging for our attention – in any one given moment, then the number would be in the billions? Which of course is not just a lot, not even just a few million, it’s hundreds and thousands of millions of things – an absolutely staggering big number!

No wonder we feel so swamped.

And too busy – or distracted – to stay attentive for long to all the things going on around us.

For it’s a crowd of calling, just too noisy to hear.

And believe it or not, we simply can’t. For once again those very same and very patiently counting scientists have calculated that out of all that vast hoard of door knockers knocking, all we can really acknowledge or let in at any given moment is just a few tiny thousand or so. Which of course still seems like quite a lot, but relative to the total, it’s not very much at all. It would be like asking you to find a single tiny blue dot in the midst of all the many letters and punctuations that have filled all the pages of this book.

Have you tried?

Well, good luck, because it’s pretty small – but I’ll give you a hint, it’s just like this one, right in front of .you.

Literally! There’s not much to it, is there – and yet, when it comes to consciousness, it still holds enough to give us a pretty good impression of what’s going on around – and inside – of us. So what happens is that in each moment of time that we’re assailed with things that we have to notice – or that try to get our attention to make us do so – we select only the ones that are most important or that are most meaningful to us.

The things that matter.

Whether they’re real or not.

Whether they’re imagined or remembered or things that are actually happening now.

It doesn’t matter.

They’re treated all the same. If they get in, they’re in and no matter what they are or where they came from, they become real to us. As for all the rest, well, they just simply pass us by. A bit like the splash of water that runs from a duck’s back, they just wash away without ever quite seeping down far enough to arouse our conscious interest – or attention.

We ignore them.

And simply let them go without ever taking heed.

oo0oo

Consciousness is not, therefore, an entirely objective or universal experience.

It is subjective.

Individualized.

For it is something evoked or created depending on what it is that we believe to be

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