A Guidepost will precede every major subsection of the MP Goal:
you (a Pilgrim)
are introduced to the "Inquiring
Mind"
and the "Mystical
Protagonist."
They will debate the scientific, metaphysical, and political
challenges
presented in OT/MP. You will be offered some initial reasons:
Unless these challenges to the declining quality of our way life are well under way to resolution within the first decade of this 21st century, the quality of all of civilized life may barely be worth living for anyone, regardless of their current comfort level, beliefs, expectations, and social status. The why behind this assertion will be made manifest to those with eyes to see and ears to hear. Once the rotting infrastructure of any bridge, building, or any physical or social structure begins to collapse, noting can stop it, and disaster is everyone's reward for prior neglect, the innocent and guilty alike. "Those with ears, let them hear." |
that
justify your taking time to learn an innovative Objective: A major thesis in the Mystical Paradigm (MP) is that the concepts of "intelligence" and "Consciousness" are fundamentally and profoundly different. The public is largely unaware of their crucial differences. The MP asserts that a significant number of our problems, their intractability, and their costs, cannot be adequately managed by any intellectually contrived approach or solution alone. The MP holds that what is not first held in C/consciousness cannot be processed by the intellect, no matter how great the intellect. Viable solutions to our wide array of problems and their symptoms is only possible from the application of Wisdom guided assessments and decisions, that reside only in Spiritual Consciousness. This major objective is to first define the nature of the differences between the intellect and Consciousness, an effort which begins now, in the following portion of this introductory dialogue. Next, following this three part Introductory Dialogue, the first major dialogue is devoted to developing a useful model of C/consciousness that you can begin to apply to practical applications. An estimate is provided below as to the current state of humanity's C/consciousness evolution. This status is now seriously biased toward an impoverished state of Spiritual Consciousness. This widespread lack of an awakened Spiritual Consciousness is introduced as the most significant root problem and peril to the future of civilization and our quality of life, and to the literal future of humanity. Here is the major thesis of the Mystical Paradigm: Consciousness
and the intellect
are not the same
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Objective: as a Pilgrim you will have the opportunity to explore the Path of Spiritual Awakening that transcends the limits of even a genius intellect. This is an achievement that can only be accomplished through deep Prayer and Meditation. Spiritual Awakening cannot be seduced, manipulated, or commanded by the human intellect. It can only be welcomed. However, the intellect can be used to prepare the foundation, the ground work for the leap of Consciousness required to first penetrate the Spiritual Information Realms and its empowering Wisdom. In the following section, the nature of this path is introduced, to be further developed in the first dialogue, C/consciousness. Then subsequent three dialogues introduce the three intellectual ego overlays on consciousness. These are: agendas, communication and HIP (Human Information Processing). Each of these ego conditions will be further developed by the specific dialogue devoted to each of these topics. |
Objective:
you will
be presented some evidence that human life, our entire humanity, is
expendable
in the Cosmic scheme of priorities. The arguments that
support this
claim include:
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Objective: killing is abhorrent to the person of elevated Spiritual Consciousness. Therefore the thesis that killing is somehow justifiable under certain conditions especially where large groups of people are concerned (genocide,) is nevertheless experienced as outrageous by those who oppose such killing. OT/MP offers such a conditional defense of killing, conditional in that a certain context must be present, and then certain prerequisites must first be met. Even so,
as OT/MP argues in the dialogue on
Karma and Reincarnation, that there is still a Spiritual price to pay
for
those who plan and execute such actions, even though certain kinds of
killing
can be intellectually
justified
under the limited conditions set forth in OT/MP.
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The "Mystical Protagonist" presents an outline summary of a representative problem-sympton sequence now facing USA and western technological societies. These problems include corporate abuse, political corruption, and religious abuse and political right wing extremism. These are areas in which inadequate or ineffectual attention is currently being paid by the governance of these societies because these government are increasingly "owned" by the abusers. The premise behind this summary of problems is that no intellectual solution can be made to work without a viable Spiritual (not religious) Consciousness at work among the problem solvers. Without a viable Spiritually grounded intervention there is no question that the fate of our civilization is to slowly and painfully perish. The question is, which alternative will be the outcome? Only then can we confront these evils by a process that avoids the ultimate fate of death and disintegration, to instead, create a fate that leads Consciously to "death" [of the old] and "Transfiguration " [into the new.] The MP holds that when a person, group or nation obsesses over a problem or problems, e.g., corporate abuse or corporate corruption, that obsession tends to energize them. On the other hand, to ignore them by pretending they don't exist, is to risk becoming victim to them. The MP states that any problem or array of problems should be bluntly acknowledged for the Reality they represent, but then they should be surrendered to the Spiritually grounded processes that will be developed in subsequent dialogues. Unless this array of problems is dealt with from a Spiritually grounded Holistic Systems approach, no viable or stable solution or set of solutions will likely emerge in time to save the United States of America from the fate of every prior great world civilization. Fate by default is death and disintegration instead of Transfiguration into a rebirth that has been freed of such problems. We confront our moment of Truth in this first decade of the 21st century. However, as we now stand at the precipice of significant social disintegration, we observe it is business as usual in the status quo of predatory capitalist America. |
Objective: The function of this section is to provide only a summary of representative corporate generated problem areas now afflicting America and western societies. After the electorate examined the candidates for the 2004 election, only a few were fully aware of these problem areas that contribute to the social pathologies growing in our society. Those many who did suspect, have no means of assessing their concerns in any useful relationship with each other. These visible pathologies include family conflict and child and spousal abuse, street crime, violent gangs, corporate crime, corporate abuse of its workforce and customers, failing educational systems, gross political corruption, and the increasing betrayal of those young people. They believed in the myths of capitalism, invested in advanced professional education and skill training because they expected America to deliver on its promise to them. However, more and more of those who committed to hard work and discipline in order to be rewarded in the marketplace of capitalism, now find themselves denied even the right to work. The electorate rejected those who had potential to cope with the problems, and instead reelected the root source, the George W. Bush Administration and it international corporate machine. The following areas of pathology in capitalist America are only intended to be a sketch, a "picture-by-the-numbers" of the scope and depth of threats now being visited on America by corporations, the lawyers who feed at their trough of corporate and personal power. You may provide other, perhaps better, examples. But the purpose of the following presentations is only to have you place these interacting problems on the alter of your mind, to then see how they can be addressed by the seven major dialogues to follow, to see how much more clearly they and their interactive dimensions can be detected and understood, and to suggest what coping strategies are going to be required to correct and heal them. Best of all, you may discover what healing and correcting role you can play. |
Objective: undergirding problem factors must be detected and assessed correctly and completely before healing and correcting interventions can be successfully designed and implemented. However, to do this requires that the C/consciousness of any observing person, or social system, have the minimal Spiritual Consciousness required to correctly detect and evaluate what is Really going on. That is, the observer must have a model of R/reality that incorporates access to the Reality only made possible by an illuminated Spirituality. That Spiritual quality is seriously lacking across western society in general and America in particular. Spirituality is not necessarily related to religiosity. As will be shown in other dialogues, some manifestations of religion are actually harmful to one's Spiritual health. The following section introduces some Spiritually related qualities which when absent, diluted, or compromised by the ego intellect, confounds our ability to even detect, let alone resolve and heal these problem areas. Thus we fail to recognize the appearance of material illusions and deception in the information provided us by secular authorities. Nor can we respect the urgent need for regulation in human organizations and other social systems. The overall decline in a society's Spiritual character is a major symptom that the society is dying. That a society so afflicted cannot even recognize, let alone address this situation, is of course, why such a society is doomed to death and destruction, not death and Transfiguration. Religious fervor is NOT evidence of Spiritual Consciousness. For a society to manage its change by death and Transfiguration requires an elevated Spiritual Consciousness in a critical mass [Note] of the public. The seven major dialogues are designed to empower you to understand and implement such a healing model from any vantage point in society where you find yourself. |
Objective: OT/MP will argue that human Spirituality is harmed when a Spiritually healthy religion is transformed into to one dominated by the ego agendas of its custodians, its priests, clergy and managers. The transformation of the highly Spiritual Gnostic Christianity as taught by Jesus, His apostles, and His immediate successors were relentlessly transformed during the first 500 years of the Christian church to principally protect and serve the ego driven agendas of its controlling bishops and priests. They ruthlessly acted to purge the church of all of its Gnostic symbols, texts and advocates. This very brief summary is offered here to help achieve three important objectives set for OT/MP: As will also be briefly presented, the destructive power of the ego can be found even in contemporary resurrections of the original Gnostic Christian and Mystical religions. These revivals began in the last decades of the 19th century. These examples are provided to show, that even those who are advocates of, and devoted to, the healthy expression of Spiritual Truth can themselves become vulnerable to their insidious and destructive ego needs for power and control. The following discussion will begin to suggest why the most nobel and promising causes of humanity can go astray and sometimes bring on more evil than good. |