Consciousness is a topic I see explored repeatedly on this board. Our curiosity with consciousness is understandable because it is fundamental to the spiritual and scientific issues that many of us have struggled with as part of our departure from Mormonism.

Peter Russell is a physicist who has studied consciousness for decades. He studied in Cambridge and was a student of Stephen Hawking.

For those of you who have 90 minutes to spare, Russell's lecture he presented last month (below) is an excellent discussion of the issue. His perspective strongly resonates with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=47&v=4Pg4VDYQL7w

Alan Watts talks about flood light consciousness and spotlight consciousness.

It's nice to be alive... at least enough to know you're living.

Really living!

Yep. I think Peter Russell has tapped into much of the same intuitive wisdom that Alan Watts frequently spoke about.

As he explained how we experience "I am", I was reminded of Ma. Ma is the tone of the divine feminine according to Hindu and Buddhist ideas. A primal tone used to express femininity. Am is the exact mirror of Ma. It's the masculine imagination of being that complements the transcendent feminine.

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