{"id":11460,"date":"2017-01-07T23:55:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T15:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=11460"},"modified":"2017-01-07T23:55:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T15:55:18","slug":"deeper-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2017\/01\/07\/deeper-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Deeper Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this recurring conversation with a friend about how there&#8217;s a deeper\u00a0consciousness in each of us, that we don&#8217;t always access every day. Everyday life is mundane and tedious and frustrating, but all of that is a laughable distraction to the deeper self.\u00a0Some people might call it God.<\/p>\n<p>My ideas on this are informed by Alan Watts and Elliott Hulse, and a bunch of other folks that I&#8217;ve read or listened to over the years who&#8217;ve alluded to something similar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this recurring conversation with a friend about how there&#8217;s a deeper\u00a0consciousness in each of us, that we don&#8217;t always access every day. Everyday life is mundane and tedious and frustrating, but all of that is a laughable distraction to the deeper self.\u00a0Some people might call it God. My&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[824],"tags":[609],"class_list":["post-11460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays","tag-wip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-2YQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}