Good Friday. Of course, we all know what Good Friday is. Ironically on April 14th of 2006, Good Friday took on an additional meaning for me. I died – if only in the clinical sense and if only for 3 minutes even though it took me over a month to “get back” – I was in a coma for 35 days. You’ll read the whole story in the coming weeks but right now I want to answer, “Why a Blog”.
We’ve all heard about our lives “flashing” us by as we’re dying and the thoughts about regretting things we hadn’t done. It wasn’t like that at all for me. What was really “killing” me (excuse the pun), was all the things I hadn’t said. I had a need and a desire to speak and I couldn’t. I don’t mean the physical and vocal part necessarily, although the lack of that ability does carry a certain horror with it. Mainly it was not being able to “express” myself. Maybe, what it turns out that we really are is just an expression. Maybe each one of us are, or is it supposed to be, is, a unique and beautiful expression. And in the medically induced coma I was in for a month, a controversial procedure that not all doctors are convinced of its effectiveness, I found that I was no longer the expression I came to know as “me”.
Perhaps no aspect of mind is more puzzling than consciousness and our conscious experience of self and the world. Despite the lack of any agreed upon theory of consciousness, there is a widespread consensus that an adequate account of mind requires a clear understanding of it and its place in nature. We need to understand both what consciousness is and how it relates to other, non-conscious, aspects of reality, but let me not get carried away in that direction just yet.
On this blog site, only those who care what I, as GhostRider, or friends, have to say need visit. Who are “The Friends”? I am hoping you all are. As I suggested, maybe all each of us is, is a unique and beautiful, human expression. As such, I invite the reader to be a friend and “express” themselves by either reading what get posted here, or by being a subscriber and commenting on what gets posted here, or as a contributor, by posting your own thoughts here (I know you’re dying to). It’s all good.
Are you interested in consciousness, quantum philosophy, near death experience research? I am, but most of all I’m fascinated that many of you out there, may still believe that things unseen are in the realm of the supernatural. I for one, not only have convictions regarding these issues but I have and would like to hear from those of you who have thoughts to share. What is important to me is not whether your beliefs are similar to mine, but rather that they are expressed, period. Intelligibly or dyslexically, I feel strongly both ways. Be patient with me as my humor can bit a bit esoteric at the beginning.
Love and Peace
Bernardo aka GhostRider
GhostRider & Friends - architects of consciousness 