Full Moon in Virgo: No Words
Consciousness is like a river. William James was the first to coin the phrase calling it the “stream of consciousness” in 1890. According to psychology consciousness refers to our awareness of our own mental processes, such as our thoughts, feelings and sensations. It's likened to self-awareness and the ability to introspect, or look inward and examine these processes. I have heard this referred to in a collective sense in that the collective conscious is also like a river continually flowing by in the energetic sphere. Many, including myself, belief all have access to this river of collective information and are even able to capture a cup of wisdom from it from time to time and bring it back to share. The thing about that being research studies have shown that we only are able to experience one mental event at a time within the quickly moving mind stream. So, even though there are rivers of information inside of us and oceans of information all around us, our cups can only captur...