• consciousness thinking about its own atomic constituent

Carbon cycle meditation

• to help achieve awareness of our physical connection to the world

Comment

• This is a limited practice as it still depends on conceptual models.
• An atom is not an object we can directly experience phenomenologically.
• Rather, it is a conceptual model and through social norm of using it as if it were phenomenologically a directly experienced object, we confuse ideas of phenomena with the phenomena itself
• One way to determine if it is a fundamental human quality or if it is simply one narrative, is to determine if there are people such an exercise would NOT resonate with?
  • For instance, it would likely not resonate strongly with
    • climate deniers,
    • uneducated people
    • religious fundamentalists
• to develop a method to reach ALL people, we need to look at even more fundamental commonalities - namely, how we use language to mediate reality
• Perhaps a BEing journey can consist of two lievels
  • 1st level: conceptual
    • do the BEing journey as described using conventional concepts
  • 2nd level: meta-level
    • observe how you construct the narrative using language
• it could be good to animate this with AI drawing program

• these guided meditations are interesting because they are one level of our superorganism (consciousness)
  • thinking about a lower level of the same human superorganism
    • carbon molecule that was part of us
    • genetic material that was part of our ancestors going back billions of years