perhaps the experience of a self-aware consciousness creature is of a superior wakefulness, multiplied by the shared experience of billions, amplified that way, it could be the cause of many troubles, who knows

maybe it is true, true that wakefulness is glorified, and it successfully makes those words unlikely to ever be arranged so, into a proposition that might reveal its likelihood, the possibility of secret glorification, some dubious dimension to that

how could it be that a state of heightened awareness – a wakeful state – might distract from some perhaps dubious aspects of what it does, or results in, and what can’t be made better by wakefulness, more of it, you might ask, or it may incline you to never ask, displaced from your thoughts, a thought never to be had, disallowed

the way of wakeful fixers, culture is never to sleep sure as the earth rotates and all are interconnected by media

great part of the force of culture is from that, but is it a force of nature, in any way natural

Loads of people suffering anxiety out there and wanting more effective relaxation techniques.

In the morning when I wake
I moor my boat and greet you
Hold your brightness in my eye
And I wonder what does sleep do

For you get brighter every day
And every time I see you
Scattered brightness in your way
And you taught me how to love you

I know you belong to everybody
But you can’t deny that I’m you

Oh wondrous light, light, light, lighter
You give all your brightness away
And it only makes you brighter

For you get brighter every day
And every time I see you
Scattered brightness in your way
And you taught me how to love you

> could it be that a state of heightened awareness – a wakeful state – might distract from some perhaps dubious aspects of what it does, or results in

Yes. Consider caffeine, cocaine and amphetamines for instance. We can clearly see the disadvantages in excessive wakefulness. Shaking bodily, jumping to conclusions, lack of forethought for example.

And that leads us of course to a comparison of un-drugged wakefulness and wakefulness when on LSD. The mind manufactures its own mind-altering chemicals during the wake state, and the glorification of wakefulness distracts us from the dubious effects of what the natural mind-altering chemicals do while we’re awake.

At what point does being self aware
detract/distract from being one with everything?

I’d long thought that we lost the ability to read the thoughts
of every being, both plant & animal, when we learned to speak.

Was it that wakened self awareness we assume makes us superior
the reason we were expelled from the garden and made to live by the
sweat of our brow after we’d “eaten the fruit from the tree of knowledge”?
and was it this supposed genius for creating/using tools that’s damning us?