A DOSE OF REALITY heralds AN ALTERNATIVE CURRENCY

The truth about the nature of reality is up for grabs.  What we believe is real is what's real to us.  So if we don't much care for the nature of our reality it only makes sense to question what we believe, and consider there might be some form of external stimulus at work intent on influencing our systems of belief.  After all, knowing this, anyone interested in global power would take advantage of such a potential as soon as they realized they could.  

In the world we inhabit today, one of the most influenced and most influential 'realities' we believe in is the necessity and power of money.  But what is money really?  What exactly does it represent?  And what does that mean to us?  And, if it's not used with integrity, does it really matter?

 
So I was listening to a radio show called Dose of Reality for the first time in a while last night.  I hadn't had the opportunity for a variety of reasons, which is a shame. 

BEING CONSCIOUS: Part 1 — Ah, It's Nothing

[2 of 5—to begin click here:  BEING CONSCIOUS: A Brief Introduction]

How on Earth can we think about consciousness?

How do we know what we know?

Where does awareness come from anyway?

And who decides what’s real?

Such questions have been asked since time immemorial and all we’ve really got to show for it is a bunch of stories about singularities and big bangs, and then more stories about God or the Gods, some rather impenetrable religious ideas we can’t throw a stick at, a few strange psychological ideas, and a great deal of argument about its physicality.  In the end we’re stuck with pretty much a big fat nothing.  So what’s up with that?

Well, what if consciousness comes from nothing—and nothing decides?  How’s that for a strange idea?

NOTHING?

Yep, that certainly is a strange idea.  How can awareness possibly come from nothing?  That’s just plain nuts.  Well now, maybe it is—and maybe it isn’t.  Something from nothing, eh?

Perhaps we should begin with another story.