What if your conscience is just a receptor for the wider energy surrounding us all?
Well, ‘wider energy surrounding us all’ is a bit ambiguous. Our whole being is a receptor for what is around us and our conscience is one of many filters we have in place to allow us to process and understand what we experience, and also how to decide to behave in relation to our experience. Because we are a social animal, there could even be said to be a duality in conscience: the personal and the social. The incredible thing is that many social constructs, like religious and/or social or political hierarchies and organisations, would have us believe that good and evil is the ultimate question, an idea which is essentially a self-serving device, possibly of unconscious origin – ie not initially intended, but rather a manifestation of the egos of the individuals who form the group – that deprives an individual of the their own ability to reason. Literature, music, theatre and cinema have been exploring these questions for as long as they’ve been around. In fact, I might be inclined to say that they came about as a direct response to these questions, just like most fine art.
But, that’s all barely a scratch on the surface of the subject. Lovely topic, though, proper food for thought. I wish I knew why it was giving me such a strong feeling of déjà vu…