Truth vs Falsehood (52 page)

From the viewpoint of morality, America has the responsibility to itself and to the world to have the most advanced intelligence system available, not one of just self-interest, but as an expression of the recognition of integrous stewardship of its great power in the world where intelligence outweighs might.

Of great interest is that very successful corporations function at higher levels than do most government agencies. Fallacious theories and incompetence are quickly dismissed and poor leaders are rapidly replaced. No company would tolerate the haphazard, uncoordinated climate and atmosphere of government agencies that resulted in not just Pearl Harbor and 9/11, but also the bombing of U. S. embassies and the U.S.S. Cole, being ‘surprised’ by a North Korean/Chinese Communist army of five hundred thousand troops in the Korean War, being ‘surprised’ by the resistance of Iraqi insurgents, etc.

No commercial corporation that functions at the level of incompetence that characterizes entire governmental departments could survive. It is likely that private enterprise can outperform government in about every department at a much lower cost. (This statement calibrates at 450.)

This is demonstrated by the example cited of a private military company’s outperforming U. N. troops by ten-fold, i.e., at one-tenth of the cost, one-tenth of the time, one-tenth of the number of soldiers, and one-tenth of the casualties, with all the private troops being volunteers! This shows the efficacy of critical factor analysis where real experts diagnose the core of the problem and win with precision. If such private companies had been in charge of the U. S. defense, slipshod incompetence would not have continued for decades. In private industry, if you ‘blow it’, you are out, not re-elected or reappointed.

Is this a realistic view? The facts are commonly known by all professionals, and the difference between the top, the mediocre, and the bottom is very well known. The lives of great numbers of citizens are at risk.

As a consequence of the advancement of human consciousness, it is now possible to discern truth from falsehood. Of equal importance is that, henceforth,
there are no secrets
. Not only can truth but also the level of truth be quickly ascertained. Also important is that the technique is limited only to integrous people for integrous purpose. This is a built-in safeguard by which the world can become a much safer place and the threats to its safety can now be rapidly exposed. As an example:

Current Application of Critical Factor, Attractor Field Analysis

International Nuclear Programs (December 2004)

Spirituality and War

From the data presented, it is apparent that war is the consequence of both the propagation of falsehood and the absence, ignorance, or denial of truth. Historically, these conditions were a certainty because there were no other means of discerning truth. War brings up moral, ethical, and political debates that present a problem of prioritization of values vis-á-vis survival and practicality. Thus, it represents the dilemma of hard choices of being “between a rock and a hard place.” Survival depends on choosing the lesser of two evils (i.e., triage). This requires some compromise with idealism, which, although it sounds moral as a principle, often merely represents the hypothetical and not an actual, doable option.

On the upside, passivity can represent a form of resistance to negativity and thus pressure resolution (e.g., passive resistance in India via Mahatma Gandhi). Thus, intention and motive are major determinants of consequences and the calibration level of a positionality. In the end, it takes courage and strength rather than the mouthing of pious platitudes and homilies to resolve the forces at work as the specter of the actual occurrence of war arises.

While organized resistance may resolve some conflicts, the results are consequent to the overall situation, such as cultural, economic, and political factors that may or may not be favorable. This can be seen from an analysis of prior wars, where passivity not only did not work but actually triggered war (e.g., World War II).

From the viewpoint of the actual participants in a conflict situation, as contrasted to the viewpoints of the spectators, the rueful comment is that after the protests and peace parades are over, in the end, the true situation and its serious problems have to be handled by the doers, the ‘hard headed’ but ethical, practical realists (cal. 465), who are then subjected to politicized attack, no matter what actions are required.

What is the spiritual/ethical/moral duty of a defender from a kamikaze attack, with its barrage of bullets and bombs? The essence of valor is courage, plus the best ethical behavior that is possible under given circumstances, i.e., pray while you fight and be loyal to comrades and one’s duty. With limited options, the truly spiritual resolution thus appears to be a forced compromise with the wishful ideal. This resolution calibrates at 485. When the ethical, responsible position is combined with the quality of love of comrades and country, the calibration rises to 510. When the situation is chosen as a high spiritual option, the choice that can be made is to function as required and totally surrender one’s will to God. A rare option then opens up that calibrates at 595 and is the doorway to Enlightenment itself at 600 or over.

While this same opportunity actually exists at every moment of life, it is rarely recognized without a calamitous confrontation. War has thus been paradoxically the very avenue to sudden major spiritual advancement and therefore a great karmic opportunity. Rarely does anyone surrender their life and seeming source of existence (the ego) to God unless confronted by a maximal situation. The stunning consequence of total surrender in the face of likely or certain death is the dramatic and seemingly magical, sudden disappearance of all fear or terror. In its place, one is enveloped in the incredible, all-encompassing omnipresence of a Peace and stillness that is profound and timeless. Thus, “man’s calamity is God’s opportunity” is factual. The same phenomenon occurs in any seeming disaster situation. In 2003, the Weather Channel reported that a woman who was sucked up into the air during a tornado remarked, “I was suddenly in a still and awesome state of peace while being whirled hundreds of feet into the air.”

Although the concept of karma is not familiar or commonplace in the Western world, it is a confirmable reality that calibrates at 999. Karma is a shorthand term for the totality of all factors present at birth, both physical and spiritual (i.e., the calibrated level of consciousness itself). This inheritance is both individual as well as collective, and therefore, every earthling shares in the collective karma of humankind itself and its worldly expressions, of which war is a likelihood. (As previously noted, there has been war during ninety-three percent of man’s history on earth. Peace has prevailed during only seven percent of the overall time of civilization.)

The most obvious spiritual opportunity presented by war is that of forgiveness and surrender of the personal will. This stems from compassion for the human condition itself, with its inevitable limitations inherent to the (karmically inherited) ego that includes almost inevitable error and blind ignorance. “They know not what they do” is a clinical and verifiable fact.

That seventy-eight percent of the world’s population calibrates below 200 is why the great avatars illuminated the way. The option of spiritual salvation is a positive gift of the human (karmic) inheritance. The wise choose the gift while the foolish squander the opportunity and choose illusion instead. Thus, by heeding Socrates’ time-proven dictum that “Man chooses always only what he believes to be the good,” hatred is replaced by compassion and forgiveness that thereby turn the opportunity of war into a spiritual gift to oneself and all humankind, which struggles on in a pitifully blind state.

Spiritual people repeatedly ask, “What can we do about war? What should we pray for?” A good prayer would be for all people to see war as a valuable opportunity for worldwide mutual forgiveness and compassion, which is the real road to Peace.

Finalization

To better survive, the country would perhaps benefit from the following inferences from the above study:

1.   Form oligarchic advisory councils, in addition to the current political system, to guide in policy and decision-making.

2.   Learn how to diagnose malignant messianic narcissism and thereby identify and counter dangerous leaders before they threaten the world.

3.   Identify dangerously fallacious ideological trends before they become epidemics.

4.   Contract the expertise of very successful private enterprise to conduct vital operations.

5.   Develop an accurate, sophisticated intelligence capability utilizing consciousness calibration techniques as outlined previously, which, if we had had them at the time, could have prevented all the wars of the last century, as well as the deaths of many millions of people.

6.   Develop international diplomacy based on precise information obtainable by the now-available technique as described and illustrated in this and previous chapters.

7.   Make greater use of trade to form alliances and facilitate cooperation with other countries (e.g., the success of our relationship with China, which only a decade ago was seen as a serious potential threat)

SECTION IV

HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS AND TRUTH

CHAPTER 16

Religion and Truth

Section 1
World Religions

Introduction

Religion has been respected as a source of truth throughout the ages in all cultures. The consciousness calibration technique documents the spiritual reality intrinsic to the various major religions. In the calibrations that follow, it is important to realize that calibration levels are not a form of judgmentalism. A higher calibration does not imply ‘better than’ but instead reflects the influence of the levels of consciousness of cultures from which the truth of religions historically emerged as well as the level of truth that is being expressed. The value and benefit of any religion is dependent on the motivation of the devotee, and any one of them can be the springboard to advanced mystical states or enlightenment. All, however, start with faith.

History

Research into the facts surrounding religion has resulted in probably the world’s most prestigious and scholarly literature. Most investigations, however, have been primarily historically rather than spiritually oriented, resulting in great attention to archeology and documentation of historic events that, although interesting, are often irrelevant as compared to the essence and foundation of truth revealed by the core teachings.

The great religions arose out of the teachings of their founders—the great masters, avatars, and spiritual geniuses of all time. Their essential truths later often became obscured by preoccupation with ethnic, geographic, and cultural observances that are extraneous to the thrust of the teachings themselves and diversionary as well. However, at the same time, they present a cultural historic context with implications as to the meanings conveyed as well as their languaging. Because much of spiritual teaching is subtle and meanings are implied by slight changes of expression or gestures, unfortunately, that kind of information has been lost and, therefore, verbatim statements are sometimes equivocal.

In early primitive and often tribal cultures, the main impact and thrust of major high religious truth was the advent of and then later the prevalence of monotheism, which replaced the multiple pantheons of pagan Roman, Greek, and German origin. Thousands of years before the development of religion in the Western world, the ancient Aryan culture of India had already spawned very advanced spiritual teachings as the foundation of Hinduism. The teachings of the enlightened sages and rishis, who were the source of the Vedas, preceded the appearance of the Buddha by several thousand years, as well as the appearance of Moses, and later, Jesus, and much later, Muhammad.

Formal religion also replaced more primitive pantheism as well as idolatry. In the Native American culture, the presence of God as the source of life was intuited without the interface of a specific avatar or prophet. The awareness of Chief Seattle, as revealed by his very famous address, was at an impressive calibration level of 700. The structure of the Iroquois Nation contributed to the construction of the Constitution of the United States. These phenomena lend credence to the concept of “the natural law,” the principle that man was created with the capacity to apprehend the reality of Divinity. Out of this doctrine arose the theological discourse of ‘vincible’ versus ‘invincible’ ignorance.

The Downside of Religion

The limitations of religion have been analyzed by historians from a secular viewpoint and by theologians in their criticisms, as well as by the great philosophers over the centuries. The intrinsic problems arise from the canonization of interpretations of spiritual truth that are the consequence of misunderstanding by the spiritual ego of ecclesiastics. Much is lost in translation of teachings that were not written down until centuries after they were spoken.