desert daze

I’m in love with you.

And I know that love is just a shout into the void.

And that oblivion is inevitable.

And that we are all doomed.

And that one day, all of our labors will be returned to dust.

And I know that the sun will swallow the only earth we will ever have.

And I’m in love with you.

 Sorry.

Elliana Equivel.

phenomenology. the study of structures of consciousness. how things seem to the conscious person. studies the aspects universal to the human experience. 

From Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn

“Ishmael thought for a moment. ‘Among the people of your culture, which want to destroy the world?’

‘Which want to destroy it? As far as I know, no one specifically wants to destroy the world.’ 

‘And yet you do destroy it, each of you. Each of you contributes daily to the destruction of the world.’ “ 

What is consciousness? Is it roughly equivalent to awareness? Shall it include the perception of free choice by the experimenter? Ultimately, a definition is manifest by the use of the term.

“Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.”