See "...the wind in the trees..." at the conclusion on the immediately preceding post.
In the text, this phrase is immediately followed by:
"That was the worst of it. The sky didn't care. The Earth went on turning through an endlessness of dark and silence, and what happened in the thin scum seething over its crust didn't matter.
"Nobody cared. It wasn't important." (p. 51)
Profound reflections for a man who had been well below average intelligence before the change. But why should the sky care? How could it? Consciousness cares and that exists in "the thin scum" on the Earth's crust. We care. It is important. Especially since we are the conscious part of this universe that comprises sky, space, Earth etc. Why counterpose us in this way? We are not - or not just - "scum"!
I must speak up for consciousness before I read something else, then retire for the night.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And God cared enough to become Incarnate as man for our salvation.
Ad astra! Sean
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