As mobile organisms, we experience reality as flashes of perception, which we are constantly sorting and judging, as a function f navigating our world. Keep in mind plants don’t have a central nervous system, because they don’t have to navigate.

When we turn down the judging a bit and become more passenger, than driver, we see more of the scenery and sense a larger reality, even if it means giving up some of the sense of control. Though this broader view will give more options to consider.

We are just one node in a very large and complex network, so it can be very interesting to learn to fade into it.

As these mobile creatures, we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future, but the reality is that change turns future to past.

Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal “dimension” of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform and drive it. Aka, causality and conservation of energy.

Energy is “conserved,” because it is always and only present, since it is the changing configuration of this energy that creates the effect of time.

Similar to temperature, pressure, color, etc. Think frequencies and amplitudes. Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don’t call them the 5th and 6th dimensions of space, because they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not the sequence of thought.

So the process goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. As consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts and feelings go future to past.

Which would seem to suggest that consciousness exists as energy. Like light. Or heat.

Yet in our body, it’s the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, while the head sorts through the patterns.

The heart and gut, versus the head.

The light shining through the film, versus the images on it.

As the light goes from one frame to the next, past to future, while the frames go future to past.

Yet that means consciousness is not simply awareness, but desire. The impulses bubbling up through life. The fire, seeking fuel for its continuation.

The appetite that gives meaning to the banquet of life. The desire, more so than the objects of desire.

Though if we simply let desire run wild, it will destroy us as surely as any addiction. So it has to be steered. Then we are back in the drivers seat….

The anarchy of desire, versus the tyranny of judgement.

Thus religions teach balance.