Consciousness*
Approaching spirituality
we can discuss what it might be.
As just a physical being
we miss most of human meaning.
Studying the mind or the brain
leads to complexity again.
Minds are more important by far
than the brain or body parts are.
We all have sensory perceptions
but our minds may form conceptions.
Such ideas may open the way
to cosmic consciousness some day.
To knowing each one is a part
of cosmos without end or start.
0f all the fables men may spout
the big bang will soon peter out.

Walt Abbott–3-17-2009


*NOUN:
1. The state or condition of being conscious. 2. A sense of one's personal or collective identity, including the attitudes, beliefs, and sensitivities held by or considered characteristic of an individual or group: Love of freedom runs deep in the national consciousness. 3a. Special awareness or sensitivity: class consciousness; race consciousness. b. Alertness to or concern for a particular issue or situation: a movement aimed at raising the general public's consciousness of social injustice. 4. In psychoanalysis, the conscious.