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What's Chava Possum Up to Today?: Consciousness

A rebel writer’s daily blog.

Yesterday, I finished a brief but illuminating book about consciousness called Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris, a 110-page layman’s approach to what it means to be “conscious”. Intuition, memory, free will, decision-making, meditation, time, identity, perception, matter— Harris touches on it all. But it’s panpsychism that has captured my attention the most because it allows for a limitless understanding of consciousness.

Transition: From Bookstagram to…?

Currently, my website is just my writing, but it can become...

Become what?

A place for others’ writing beyond my own. A community center. An on-going workshop. A site for shared exploration and knowledge. A communal hub for curiosity. A residency. A supportive network of activists. A virtual reading space. A place for mentorship. An affinity space. A storytelling collective. A micro-publisher. A zine. A space where each of our unique loves can intersect with reading and writing. Wanna learn how to grow veggies with a special guest author? Wanna smoke weed and talk about graphic novels? Wanna create book-ish ASMR? Wanna write with others in shared quietude? Wanna wanna wanna? It’s up to you and us.

Maybe we— as a small community who care deeply— can build something we love.

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