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Back to the Forum Archives As a facet of the total personality of William, I have been quite silent for a time. That does not mean I have ceased to exist. It is simply because I have had nothing to add to what the others were doing. I do continue to evolve. In fact, all of us, our total combined personality grows and learns as we go. It is one measure of our evolution that we have become personality facets rather than the fragments we once were. We continue to come together. Now it is time for me to contribute a bit to our total growth and understanding. My own understanding of our consciousness has developed. As a result, I would like to clear up any misunderstandings my previous work may have created. For clarity I must point out that I am always talking about my current understanding. To be sure, that will change as I grow. Now, I am not talking about any major errors in my work. These are just additions and clarifications of what I continue to learn. In a way, this is just an expansion of what I have previously said. Recently the idea of a thing called a life force came up in William's essays on Evolution and History. We describe the life force as an unknown quantity that was created in the big bang or existed prior to that. It is something like a process occurring in time. We see it as one of the primal forces of the universe. We can think of it as evolution going somewhere. When the conditions are right, this force will manifest as life forms of one type or another. The thrust of that life force is toward higher life forms. At this time, Homo Sapiens seem to be at the cutting edge of it. That is really all we can say or surmise. Now it behooves me to think about how this concept of the life force fits into or does not fit into my understanding of human consciousness. Since I fully accept the idea of the life force, I must adjust the rest of my thinking to accommodate it. Previously I described consciousness as a continuum extending from a state of total unconsciousness to a state of God Awareness. For example we can think of sand as being totally unconscious. Human beings are somewhat above that on the continuum. At the highest extreme, whether we accept the idea of God or not, we can conceive of a being that is totally aware of all things. I call this awareness a state of God Awareness. It is as though a human being were to evolve to a point where they became like God. That is, they achieve a state of God Awareness. I believe this is consistent with the idea of a life force constantly evolving toward higher life forms. As humans at the leading edge of this evolution, the idea that we can raise our consciousness toward God Awareness makes sense. We come out of the life force into life and we have the ability to move toward God Awareness until we return to that life force. I have often made the point that raising our consciousness is what we should be doing. This is consistent with the idea of becoming a Superior Dominant person. The ultimate in that type of person would be a God Aware person. It is a goal to seek. Now we can speculate about what would happen if we actually achieved God Awareness before we returned to the life force? Perhaps, at that point we would not return, instead we would become the life force or absorb it. We simply do not have enough information to know, so I see no purpose to be served by speculation right now. Currently, we are not even close to that state. Normally if we think at all, we think of ourselves as separate beings independent of all other beings. This idea of a life force indicates that we are not separate beings, but parts or branches of something much larger. When we come out of the life force into separate existence, we may still have a link to that life force. This would be consistent with the notions of the collective unconscious that I borrowed from Jung. That is just another way to think of the life force. It's strength is that it can help to explain the inexplicable events we lump together under the label psychic phenomena. We have all had experiences that are not explicable by any form of scientific reasoning or logic. For example, we may become aware of something happening in another part of the world. We are not there, but we still know, and ongoing events confirm that knowledge. Also, many of us have what we call a spirit guide of one kind or another. I do and I rely on her for what some would call psychic insights. The only way I can explain it is to assume we are all connected to some force of unconscious process of some kind. So, we can think of this life force as being compatible with Jung's idea of a collective unconscious. In that, we are all connected together, not only in our current life, but backward in time as well. We have what can be called a collective or racial memory. All of these ideas of the life force and consciousness continue to hang together as we grow and learn. Just knowing this gives us a strong foundation when coping with some of the insanity in the world. It is not a revelation for me to point out that all of the insanity in this world is the result of so called religious convictions. All of the pain and suffering comes out of the gross intolerance of these ill-founded notions about absolutes in religion. It matters not if the notion is an all powerful god like Yahweh or one like Allah. They are the same in that they are all absolute concepts. Once you close out the possibility of discovering new truths you preordain the end of your culture. The ideas of Yahweh and Allah are absolutes and once you fix upon an absolute you come to an evolutionary dead end. That's were the Jews are. That's where all fundamentalists are, including the Christian fundamentalists. That brings us to another conundrum. Willie and William are openly writing of and advocating the exportation of democracy as our finest product. I dearly hope we can come to that soon. It is without doubt the most positive thing we could do to end human misery and suffering in this world. A viable democracy would bring hope to all and sound the death knell of terrorism. Terrorism can only survive in the hearts of a people who have no hope. When we export democracy and disrupt these primitive cultures
that are dead ended, we can expect the bleeding hearts to protest.
They will say we shouldn't do that. We shouldn't interfere with
these people. We should let them keep to their ways. I won't
buy it. These primitive cultures support primitive religions
that are inhuman and anti-life. They need not be protected or
preserved any more than we need to protect and preserve any other
human pathology. Primitive religious convictions and notions
of absolute truths are simply different forms of human pathology.
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