Lucid Scheming
Angels Fear: Toward an Epistemology
of the Sacred
Bugaboo for Gregory Bateson is human Ego-
Consciousness and its PURPOSIVENESS:
aims, goals, measurable objectives.
He calls it
“secondary” process.
Bugaboo ONLY because its
dominance eclipses
what he calls “primary process”
--non- or pre- or
un-conscious process which is like
what we might
call instinct or intuition—or
deeper: counter-intuition:
the influence of “the whole” say,
whole system
wisdom. Primordial (literally: prior
to the weave
to order)
Consider the autonomic system:
the “knowledge”
or process that regulates the
nervous system, circulation,
lungs, respiration.
Consider the “automatic” system—the
system that
receives conscious training so
as to respond
automatically in some situation—like
driving,
playing sport or music,
conversation.
Now consider Ego-Consciousness: full
of purpose
and aim and objective: to be a
veterinarian, sky
diver, poet, drive to Asheville to
see a movie.
Goal Orientated.
A Triad, yes?
Semi-automatic Conscious.
Un-Conscious
Conscious
On the one hand, Consciousness is
my guiding
light, lucid schemer, savior, boss of my universe….
& don’t I want to expand it?
On the other hand: consciousness
is merely a
snowball on the tip of the I’s berg—thinking
it’s driving a car, but
actually sitting behind a
plastic steering wheel connected to
its own
kiddy seat: beep, beep and bumppety bump.
Ok-I’m mixing my metaphors. Quibble
or go
with me here.
The aim (purposive, ego-conscious) is to
set up a fundamental
distinction—between
Consciousness as the light of my life and
Consciousness as the inflated
instrument of
my ongoing darkness—blinded by my
own lite.
The more conscious I become, the
less “aware.”
The less aware &
the more conscious
Conscious-ness seems supreme, rather tha
n awareness.
My Consciousness Light is so bright
and dominate
that it’s impossible to consider
navigating without it.
That would be darkness—moving in a
cloud of
unknowing—unconsciously Blind and deaf.
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