Little Conflict

eric mccarty
2 min readDec 15, 2021
Little Conflict — Poetry — Misty Awareness — Moca McCarty Photo — Headless Now

Little conflict:

there’s little conflict for me, not between science and any spiritual thought, nor with the so called “hard problem” of consciousness where it’s debated on whether this sense of aware aliveness originates — from material means of brain and mind, or is it the very foundation of the universe, that everything possess the basic qualities of awareness. It isn’t that I refuse to take a position on these matters, or that I don’t have a favored point of view. I certainly do, and I would imagine that it’s fairly obvious to anyone who reads my blog that I tend towards a panpsychism outlook on consciousness, and that it stems from my own deeply felt experiences of being alive, aware, and of belonging so fully to a world that’s awake to my presence as well.

but I could be wrong.

and really it doesn’t matter much at all, not to me, really. My experience described above stands without need of reason or explanation. It simply is, and it matters not how this sense of belonging came to be. Science confirms my sense of a miraculous world, beginning from a pinpoint of energy to propulsion of space/time and eventual matter. Why should it surprise me that this process could somehow produce a universe that allows consciousness to appear? Similar with evolution, that nature is clever enough in random selection to reach a point that allows me to be aware. Of course this…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student