"All truth passes
through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
and
Third, it is accepted as
self-evident." --
Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788-1860)
“When a thing
is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later,
when its truth becomes
obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally,
when its importance
cannot be denied, they say: 'Anyway, it is not
new.’” --William James (1842-1910)
OUTRAGEOUS OR
NOT? You
decide! The
facts in support of each
of the following assertions can be found within
the Mystical Paradigm:
By the same Principles that explain why the
electronics
and circuitry in a television set do not create
the information and
effects we see and hear from it, neither do the mechanisms called
the human body create
the effects we experience as reality.
The sources of these effects lie within the Spiritual
Information
fields within which the human body is embedded and with which
it is ONE.
Just as the television set acts as a transducer
[definition]
that interprets and displays the data from the
electromagnetic information fields within which it is embedded, so does
the living human body act as a transducer that interprets the
Spiritual data
within the energy-information fields within which it is
embedded, but
only to the extent the person has prepared to become
open to that information.
The
capacity to experience some level of that Spiritual Information
is called Consciousness.
From
this master assertion follow most of the assertions below for which the
Mystical Paradigm has been created to explain, and which is the subject
of this entire site.
To the
extent you come to understand these Spiritual Principles, to
that extent can you transform your life and your world.
Regarding religion
and Spirituality: Spirituality
[definition]
and religiosity
[definition]
are
NOT the same.
To
be religious is NOT
the same as being Spiritual.
Religious fervor, no
matter how
passionate, is not Spiritual.
[By following any
given link to a
definition, a complete understanding will be be
best
assisted only after you have visited
several supporting contact points in the MP. There is no short cut for
you to benefit from the scale and scope of the MP without fully
engaging it. ]
Intelligence
and
Consciousness
are not the same. What is not first held
in Spiritual
Consciousness cannot be processed by your intellectual consciousness,
i.e., by the ego
owned and operated intellect, no matter how brilliant. [definitions
link] [Link
2]
The
reality
that defines your daily experience and ego
owned
and operated mental consciousness is not the same as the Spiritual
REALITY in which we actually live and move and have our
being,
but
which can only accessed by means of an awakened Spiritual
Consciousness. [definitions]
The benevolent
Jesus,
by virtue of his expressed values and teachings was, in
today's
terms,
a populist-progressive
liberal! [evidence]
The
establishment Christian churches are built on the cumulative results of
patterns of lies, deception, manipulation, and malevolent suppression
of
alternative views of Jesus, His teachings, and the meaning of His
life.
These long suspected Spiritual atrocities were only validated
in
the 20th Century by the discovery of original Gnostic scrolls hidden
during the first and second centuries at the Dead Sea and at Nag
Hammadi in upper Egypt. These atrocities were mostly
perpetrated by the Proto-orthodox Apostolic
successors during the first 300 years of the Christian Church.
They have continued to be defended and enforced by the
Catholic
and
most of the descendant Protestant sects, including the fundamentalists,
evangelicals, and
charismatics.
[evidence]
The
representations of Jesus' teachings and values by most of
today's
Christian
sects promote serious error that is inhibiting of Spiritual growth and
fulfillment when applied to secular activities and politics.
Thus
they contribute to an electorate that is largely politically
ignorant and Spiritually
impoverished, thus creating the governmental crisis of the political
and religious right.
In the light of
Gnostic Christian teachings, most
Christians, especially fundamentalist and charismatic Christians, are
NOT
Spiritually
"saved"! [evidence]
Re Islam: The
directives that justify and guide Islamic terror are specific suras
(verses)
that are found within the Holy Koran, but
which are
ignored
by the politicians, news anchors, reporters and pundits who for unknown
reasons, do not confront the apologists and defenders of Islam with
these
damning verses. Instead, Islam is constantly sucked up to by
western
sources as a "peaceful" religion. [evidence]
[See the Draconian measures that
are required to defeat
Militant Islam under the current values of Islam: Part 2 of
the 3
Part Introductory Dialogue. When
killing
is essential for life.]
Regarding
Politics and
Economics: The entirety of the
programs,
practices and policies of the Bush administration,
and the religious and political right that helped elect him, are
repudiations
of the actual teachings, values, and life of Jesus.
[review
above note]
We
don't live in a Democracy any more. We live in a corporocracy
in which corporations own and operate the elected government using
tactics
that successfully manipulate the Spiritually challenged electorate into
voting for and installing their puppets. The electorate, in
ignorance
of this Reality,
blames the
government
for our problems. But "The Government" is only a
puppet.
The
electorate must learn to identify, hold accountable, and exclude the
puppet
masters from political power. [Parable
that demonstrates the Principle]
The
most likely cause of immanent and sustained social violence across our
nation will NOT be due to acts of Islamic terror (although
such
will
occur,) but by the release of long repressed frustrations from the
increasingly
desperate, helpless, and enraged middle and lower economic
classes. (Islamic terrorists can be expected to exploit the
resulting chaos.)
These under classes are being denied the means to remedy their issues
through
the political process, and their incipient rage will be triggered by
the pernicious influence of illegal and uncontrolled immigration at all
levels of social class. For this reason, unknown to our
naive
and unsuspecting public, the Bush administration is quietly
building large labor (interment) camps in different parts of
the country
to hold up to 4000 individuals, allegedly for "fifth columnists."
[Evidence]
A
Spiritually
awakened electorate is required to detect and remedy these conditions.
But
this requires an awakened and vital Spiritual
Consciousness (not intellectual
consciousness)
that does not presently exist in sufficient degree within the
electorate.
The electorate has not a clue as to the existence and nature of the
radical
difference between intellectual
consciousness
and Spiritual Consciousness.
[definitions]
They are blissfully ignorant of what they don't know they don't
know. [Explained in Part
1 of the three part Introductory Dialogue] Yet
these adverse conditions must begin to be remedied within the next
two national elections.
The
Mystical
history before the beginnings of civilization in both the western and
eastern
hemispheres shows a predictable pattern of cycles in which Spiritually
vital
societies were overturned by Spiritually impoverished
power
mongers who were capable of and
willing to apply
coercive force. They have routinely suppressed and persecuted
those
entities
of benevolent Spirituality wherever and wherever they emerged
(e.g.,
the Biblical history of the cycles of Kings and
Prophets.)
[Evidence]
Today,
because of the same dynamic, we are on a downward spiral where the
electorate
is too Spiritually
impoverished to
recognize and install leaders of benevolent
Spirituality.
Instead, while
they
loudly trumpet their alleged Christian values, they
in fact worship secular
power at
the
feet of baal.
These are the corporate controlled right wing political and religious
extremists
who "...know not what they do." [See how we have become a Culture of the Pharisees [Those who murdered Jesus]
[See detailed essay on Why
the liberals lost the elections of 2000 and 2004.]
Thus,
our elected government has become incapable of acting from the Spiritual
Principles that founded our nation. Thus they
cannot direct our national priorities in the
direction of those Spiritual ideals that created and blessed
this
nation through the end of the 20th Century, thanks to the Mystical
(Spiritual)
capacities of our founding fathers. GOD
save the United States of America from the sectarian "God of our
fathers"
and the power mongers who invoke his name in vain. For those
with
eyes to see and ears to hear, we exist in the presence of our
nation's increasing
service to baal and
our relentless
descent
into evil. [See
the evidence
of our founding Spiritual (not religious) legacy that is still visible
in the Mystical Symbols on our Great Seal of the United States, and on
our humble dollar bill]
Because
of inadequately developed and nourished Spiritual
Consciousness in the great majority of
the electorate,
70
percent of typical Americans (your neighbors, possibly you) are capable
of and willing to commit significant torture on any innocent
person, even
without coercion of any kind. [Evidence]
The only
justification required is that they
(you) can
defer
responsibility to any individual or entity that appears to have
legitimate
authority.
The foundations of fascism
that
are
now fermenting in American society depend upon, and are prepared to
exploit
this vicious characteristic of human nature. The fascists
will
then
use
this
fatal characteristic of human nature to energize their enforcers
(police,
paramilitary,
military) of our society they are now putting into place and creating
the rules that will legitimize them. Then they will direct
them
to crush any resistance to their seizure of
autocratic
control [re the precedent of the 1970 National
Guard murders at Kent State.]
Then the fascistic controllers of the political and religious
right will slam shut the doors to America's traditional
blessings
and freedoms. The
enforcers, unless they are themselves Spiritually awakened in a
significant majority, will
predictably obey any authoritive order to torture, kill and
otherwise harm any opponents or innocents who stand in the way of the
fascistic power mongers.
[Developed in
Dialogue 5:
the
The Power Brokers and
Power Mongers, plus the "Obedience to Authority" Syndrome.]
Study Point I-1
[To
understand the use of a "Study Point," go
here.] The
following are examples
of
challenges and benefits to be addressed at the level of the
individual
(you): Most
of us, when asked who we are, provide the definition we were given by
our
society. As you will discover in OT/MP, that is not who you
truly
are. In terms of what we invest our lives in accomplishing,
as
OT/MP
will make clear and explicit, where we think we are going may not be
the
destination our behaviors are actually taking us.
Your
ego
would rather be right than be happy. The ego must always
win.
The
heart
does not care about right or wrong, or win or lose. The heart
wants
only to be happy. But from birth, we are taught by
the ego
to serve only the ego. We must soon learn to serve the heart,
or
we die.
Your
C/consciousness, not your intellect, creates your world of experience
that
affects your coping capacity, and as a consequence, your personal
happiness
and effectiveness.
Your
intellect is a subtle enemy because it is a slave to your ego,
and
therefore,
is without Spiritual Consciousness, i.e., your intellect is
NOT
responsible
for your sense of happiness, well-being and effectiveness.
These
are more dependent on the scope of your Spiritual Consciousness
than
on
your intellect.
Your
C/consciousness can be understood through a profile of its
various
dimensions, and affects your life in the following areas:
physical,
mental, emotional, and Spiritual. These technical aspects of
C/consciousness
must be understood for you to take better control of your life.
Your
C/consciousness, if controlled by you, can control your emotions, and
thus determine the quality of your personal well being and happiness in
your relationships with yourself,
"significant
others,"
and in your life's work. Your
C/consciousness profile can predict your interpersonal effectiveness
and
how you work with others in a family, coalition, group, in
organizations,
or in politics, whether as a leader, functionary, or follower.
There
is a Spiritual
defense for abortion under certain
conditions,
but
only for those of advanced Spiritual Consciousness.
[Developed in Dialogue 6: Karma and Reincarnation.] Your
vote in an election is NOT a comment on the candidates or the issues. It
is a comment on you.
It is an indicator of the scope and depth of your intellectual
consciousness,
your capacity to penetrate and assess complexity. Most of
all, it
is a statement about the health of your
Spiritual
Consciousness, your
capacity to perceive the whole and correctly assess the common
interest,
to put love, compassion, benevolence, and the common well being ahead
of self interest. It
is a
measure
of the status of your Spiritual
character.
The
following are examples
of
challenges and benefits to be addressed at the level of your group or
organization: The
collective C/consciousness of a group or organization interacts with
both
the "world" to manifest as some state of organizational
effectiveness,
and also creates and interacts with your own personal experience of
reality.
The nature of your C/consciousness determines your own role in
institutional
success or failure. This is because your C/consciousness impacts your
ability
to detect what is Real(REALITY)
compared to
what is
illusion(reality.)
Such perception, and your decisions that follow, influence others to
serve
or frustrate your own needs and goals.
The
collective C/consciousness of a coalition of dominant individuals is an
accommodation of egos and ego serving values. The extent to which ego
dominance
directs the behavior of a group must be moderated by the influence of
Spiritually
grounded insight and values. The level of viable Spiritual
Consciousness
determines the character and quality of the group in serving its
membership.
The
collective consciousness, and the richness and potency of the Spiritual
Dimension present in a group, will empower or limit the group's
effectiveness
in problem solving, coping, and will affect the satisfaction of its
members.
Any group
or organization is oriented to first serve itself(the
ego's of its members) and its agendas, regardless
of any other
official
or proclaimed agenda. This unrecognized but widespread limiting
phenomenon
dominates our way of life because widespread Spiritual lack in the
public's
C/consciousness is now ruining America.
The
following are examples of
challenges
and benefits to be addressed at the level of our society:
Unregulated
population growth alone is creating the preconditions for our
destruction.
Many
of the social pathologies
already appearing everywhere in the world are byproducts of
over-population
pressures.
Any solution to this growing
threat
requires a fully developed
Spiritual
Consciousness
to recognize the connection between overpopulation pressures and
various
expressions of social pathology.
The
destructive
byproducts
of overpopulation are further fueled by fallout from the competitive,
predatory,
ego serving, and unconditional "growth" mentality that drives the power
structures of dominant capitalist cultures and their voracious
consumption
of the earth's precious dwindling resources.
The
materialist
grounded social paradigm of democratic, free market capitalism,
which developed and insured the technological greatness of this nation
through the end of 20th century, will
and is now destroying us, if
its dominant
values and influences are allowed to dictate national priorities very
long
into the new millennium.
The
evidence is everywhere present, and will be summarized in the
introductory
dialogues to OT/MP that, we
no longer
live
in a democracy, we live in a corporocracy
(kor poor ok' ruh see.)
We can only vote for those issues and candidates that corporations have
put before us through the republican and democratic parties that they
have
bought and paid for. Third parties are under
funded,
uncoordinated,
disorganized, and uncooperative with each other. Thus they
are
unable
to form a meaningful, coordinated opposition to the entrenched elements
in our corporocracy in order to prevail in an election.
Both
Predatory Capitalism and Stalinist style Communism are twin sides of
the same evil coin.
The "coin"
is an addiction
to power.
Both
systems will ultimately
fail
when there is an absence of Spiritual Consciousness accessible to
influence
the values and direct the decision making of their leaders and
followers.
In the same sense, socialism as currently advocated for all its
egalitarian
ideals, will also be found Spiritually empty. Spiritual Consciousness,
a personal characteristic, must become the prime ingredient in each
supporter
of a political party for creating and ensuring the social, economic,
and
psychological health and stability of our nation. NOTE: as the Mystical
Paradigm will show, a Spiritually
grounded
political movement is
NOT a
religious
or any other system of theological belief however well
intended. [Details
in Dialogue
5: On Power and Control,
the
Nature
and Dynamics of the Power Monger]
Jesus
was a Liberal!
Right-wing religionist
[defined]
zealots may be outraged to
learn that when the
teachings
of Jesus, whose values they allegedly follow, are implemented into
social
programs of every kind, [i.e.,
their "works,"
per
James: Chapter
2:
14-26] these
programs will be
firmly
identified within the agenda of progressive-populist-liberal politics. Right
wing religionists and other zealots, because they are burdened with
marginal
Spiritual Consciousness, have created a type of person defined in
OT/MP's
glossary as a groinick.
[definition]
The groinicks, and those who support their brand of politics, appear
not
to be recognized for what they represent by large numbers of
voters.
The groinicks indict themselves as the Christian hypocrites they are by
denying the core teachings of the Jesus they allegedly follow, e.g.,
the
relentless and shameful "Swift Boat" attacks on John Kerry and related
products from the Republican lie machine during and subsequent to the
2004
election; and before that, their relentless attacks on, and their
incapacity
to forgive President Clinton, a Christian, for his minor sexual
indiscretions
and lying defense which they alleged were sins against them (the
nation)
because he was President.
"Then
Peter came and said to him,
“Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how
often
should
I forgive? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him,
“Not
seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times." [Mat
8:21-22]
The
kind of values expressed by
the
groinicks dare not be
allowed to influence the outcomes of elections if the
positive
elements of our way of life are to be protected and
preserved.
Are
you, or anyone close to you, a groinick, but don't know it?
Certain
kinds of religious influences that are anemic or devoid of Spiritual
Consciousness,
are actually destructive because they are bloated with the ego driven
secular
and sectarian politics of power, and they are contributing to our
ruination.
Predatory capitalist corporations have aligned themselves with these
elements,
and the groinicks. They get support for their power motivated
actions
from these right wing extremist religionists and their political
adherents.
Growing
numbers of our largely Spiritually anemic or unconscious population
(whether
churched or not) suffer from an incipient nonspecific, generalized
dis-ease
or fear.
They thus have a vague but growing need to take some kind of undefined
action. But any intellectually guided or emotionally
energized
action
(which is always slave to the ego) will produce conflict with opposing
intellectual "solutions." Any such well intended "solutions"
are
more likely prove damaging and destructive to the very corrections they
yearn to accomplish.
The
vote of the electorate in an election is NOT a comment on the
candidates
or the issues, It is a comment on the society.
It
is
an indicator of the scope and depth of a society's
intellectual
consciousness,
its capacity to penetrate and assess complexity from a Wisdom
perspective. Most of all, it is a statement about
the Spiritual
Consciousness of an
electorate's capacity
to perceive the whole and accurately assess the common
interest.
When Christian, it is a measure of their capacity to practice their
claims
as a disciple of Jesus as a way of life. It is a measure of a
nation's capacity to
put
the
common interest ahead of self interest. Therefore, it is a
measure
of the status of a nation's
Spiritual character.
How stands
the Union?
Those
who currently exploit, benefit from, and mindlessly protect and defend
the current predatory capitalist
paradigm, cannot even imagine the emergent Spiritual
Paradigm to be
presented here. They
fear the emergence of any other paradigm. They will (and already have)
go to the most
extreme
means to protect the old paradigm and deny emergence of the
new.
Lying, cheating, and murder in the interest of self-preservation of
one's
personal and political power is a predictable tactic of
zealots,
especially right wing zealots (political, corporate, and religionist,)
as they act to defend and advance their turf.
Are
any of these assertions
"Outrageous!"
for you right now, or what?
You
must not remain deaf, blind,
or
indifferent to these Real
and growing threats to our personal freedoms, and our future, whether
from militant Islam, or from predatory power mongers.
The
defense of these political assertions will be mostly found in the three
part
Introductory
Dialogue that begins on the Home page.
The defense of
the
Spiritual assertions can be found in the seven major Dialogues
beginning
with Dialogue 1 on The
Nature
of Spiritual vs Intellectual Consciousness.
The "Glossary"
and especially the "Notes"
pages are also
sources
of support for the Spiritually related assertions on this page.
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