Human Consciousness- revised

A couple of days have passed since I wrote about this and thinking about it, I think it's all wrong because what it does is still enjoy the separation of emotional and intellectual dimensions and place them above the other dimensions and what I am coming to understand is that every dimension is as valuable and great as any other, we cannot separate them as better or worse. These "separation" of dimensions seems as ludicrous in the sphere of exoteric and esoteric work as in the dimension of everyday life and society. It's a reflection from the tendency that has become so "normal" to separate people into better and worse and justify the atrocities those who consider themselves to be in the higher echelons against those in the lower ones. Each dimension is as great as the other. The physical world is no less "great" than the spiritual world but it is not meant to be possessed but to be shared. We reveal the extent of our ignorance by the amount of possessiveness with which we allow our greed to take for our selves what would save other people. 







Thomas Aquinas even allowed for the overthrow of a king (and even regicide when the king was a usurper and thus no true king) but he forbade, as did the Church, the overthrow by his subjects of any legitimate king. The only human power capable of deposing the king was the pope. The reasoning was that if a subject may overthrow his superior for some bad law who was to be the judge of whether the law was bad? If the subject could so judge his own superior then all lawful superior authority could lawfully be overthrown by the arbitrary judgement of an inferior and thus all law was under constant threat. Towards the end of the Middle Ages many philosophers such asNicholas of Cusa and Francisco Suarez propounded similar theories. The Church was the final guarantor that Christian kings would follow the laws and constitutional traditions of their ancestors and the laws of the presumptive god and of justice. Similarly, the Chinese concept of Mandate of Heaven required that the emperor properly carry out the proper rituals, consult his ministers, and made it extremely difficult to undo any acts carried out by an ancestor.

Elena: What I find interesting about this passage is that the church can overthrow the king if he's illegitimate. So what is a legitimate King? 

If we were to transpose that to the emotional, intellectual sphere, reasoning is not enough, the human, moral value is indispensable and when the mind's reasoning gets out of focus, the moral valuation is called upon to act and balance it out. The I then Acts. 

If we remember the cult experience what we need to understand is that the formatory apparatus in the mind is simply an apparatus at the service of whoever is in charge. Whatever the I. What is interesting is that everyone, every single human being is acting out their lives convinced that we are RIGHT. No one is acting out without a moral or reasoned conviction. What we would need to do to come to terms with each other about what is objective morality and reasoning would be to set out the "rules of the game" and abide by them. 

The problem is that the rules of the game are not objectively human, they are subjected to those in power so anyone in power sets the rules and carries them out protected not by objective laws but by the imaginary set up. The world is ruled by the false personality of human beings! We are all the same, we are all equally responsible, we are all in the same process. We are not some against others, our struggles are the play in which actual forces are playing themselves out not only socially but individually. The more an individual lives under objective human laws, the more human we'll all become. Those whose consciousness is centered in the instinctive realm will continue to pursue their own selfish interests and try to impose themselves on people "willing to be exploited". People are "willing to be exploited" when they do not hold in themselves the consciousness of human equality. Democracy is not a reality today because even in half way “democratic” nations people are willing to be exploited. Cults are flourishing everywhere because individual human beings still don't have the consciousness that they are each and everyone equal to each and everyone else, that we all have a right to eat, move, love and work. That is all we have a right to: to live! 

Wars and struggles between men are aspects of our process of evolution. That doesn’t mean that they are justified, it means that they are part and parcel of the process. Just as an individual struggles with all the different aspects of his and herself, society struggles with all the different aspects of itself. Just as an individual has to struggle against his own greed, nations and people have to struggle against theirs. To come to terms with one’s self an individual must be able to confront each of his and her actions and struggle for  the ability to perform them “humanly”. Likewise nations must come to terms with their ability to act humanly not only towards other nations but towards their own people. In these times of globalization, every nation and individual is confronted with its particular weaknesses and has to face the human standard beyond their personal and national interests. Its’ a very exciting time to be alive.

Balance between the different aspects of society is reached only through great struggle of the will: The will within each individual as much as the will within each nation. Who is standing against the will to be more human? To share what belongs to all of us? To be transparent in our dealings? To help each other develop more justly in our societies? How many more wars will we face before we start living our humaneness with the dignity it entails?

Human beings are not the monsters that have been painted to justify the abuses some people do on others. A human being is a sacred being, but animals and all of nature is no less sacred. The horrors we do on each other are based on a psychological acceptance of the monstrosity of our nature that has been claimed and reclaimed to justify the hierarchies in power. When we stop accepting that “publicity” against our selves, we will each recover the necessary trust in our being to claim our rightful place on Earth. The problem is not the people in power for they in power are as unconscious of their being as those without it. People in power are as disempowered as people without power. They mostly have what they have by “accident” but they are even more unconscious and ruthless about their humanity than less privileged people. The problems we are facing today are not only about class differences, they are about human consciousness. The more conscious we each become the more willing we’ll be to change the social conditions that will bring all of us together into a more loving and civilized world.

I read myself and I am so naïve aren’t I? My language is almost infantile! I like that and at the same time I am quite embarrassed!  I’m glad I’ve not had as heavy an education as people who in their complexity cannot appreciate this simplicity. I am very naïve but I know we are very, very far from reaching the more human world that I know is possible. We move like in a pendulum in a world of action and reaction and things will probably get squeezed a lot tighter before we get a taste of freedom.

Young people are being abused and killed in the military without even their mothers protesting. That is how upside down and backwards the world today is. In the patriarchal societies old men seem to take care of the younger generation sending them to war so that they can rule much longer. That is another of the horrors of the patriarchal system in which we are drowning. The ego of the alpha males must stand above all vulnerable things and people: nature, women, young men, children, old people. Until men can come to terms with their own humaneness we'll keep watching them killing each other for a bucket of narcissism. But we've all become somewhat alpha males, including women unwilling to take a part in the struggle for a more balanced society convinced that we have to play along with the males to be valued by them. We've done that for so long.