"Google It, That's What I Do When I Want To Know Something"

In this article we will look at the concepts of information, knowledge and wisdom and see if there is some way in which they can all be connected. We will also try and gain a clearer understanding of these concepts when considering them from the perspective of a consciousness framework. Ultimately, we must remember that all of these concepts are something that we have created. Regardless of this fact, we can still make an attempt to integrate them as part of the consciousness framework being developed in these writings, identifying them as specific individuated parts of the whole. 

As with all of these articles, each of them is generally based on real-life events that were directly experienced by myself at some point. Each of these events acts as a catalyst that then sparks the initial insight which the rest of the article is built upon. Therefore, to help the reader understand this article better, it is worth taking some time to first set the scene and outline the specific event which acted as the initial catalyst to the discussion we will be having here. Mentioning the circumstances leading up to the writing of this article should also help bring into the reader’s awareness the fact that the ability to develop ourselves is available to us at each and every moment, every single day.

Outlining this particular experience helps to establish this fact within our perception to an even greater degree. Every single experience we encounter has within it something which, if internally integrated and realised, is able to shift our conscious perception of the world around us. Therefore, it will only be natural that if you are consciously engaged with the process of developing yourself, you will very soon start to find these moments of inspiration around you, even in the places you would not typically expect to find them. Ultimately the whole cosmos is, in some respect, a vast mechanism for developing yourself. Becoming conscious of this fact means that you can always be consciously engaged with the process, regardless of where you are and what you are doing.

The experience which acted as the catalyst for this particular article and the topics being discussed here occurred as part of a simple train journey. I was travelling on my own on this train journey and there were various groups of people sat around in the coach all having discussions amongst themselves. I was not focused on anything in particular and was just sat in a conscious state of observation. All of a sudden, I became very aware of a particular phrase which had been uttered from one person to another. The exact topic of their conversation was not something that I was aware of, it was only this particular phrase which became illuminated in my awareness. It was as if, for a brief moment, this was the only thing that was discernible from what was otherwise just background noise.

The phrase which was uttered was, “Google it, that’s what I do when I want to know something.” Amongst all of the movement and noise in the coach, it was this phrase which my conscious perception became particularly focused upon. It is also worth mentioning that upon hearing this phrase I did look to see who it was that had said it. Although the reasons for this do not have much to do with the main discussion of this article, it is something which has some relevance in another regard and so will be briefly touched upon here. The phrase had been said as part of a conversation between two individuals who were around the age of seventy.