Truth vs Falsehood (8 page)

ANIMAL KINGDOM

From the map of consciousness of the animal kingdom, we can make several interesting and very significant observations. Up to level 200, animal life survives by predation and, therefore, the very life of the predator is solely dependent upon consumption of the prey. From the viewpoint of human values, animal life up to that level is totally egocentric, selfish, and self-centered, as well as voracious. Survival at that level is not dependent upon choice but upon necessity. The predator sees the prey not as something to kill but strictly as a meal. If we ask through consciousness research whether the predator intends the killing of its seeming victim, we get the answer ‘no’. Its intention is not to kill but to eat (i.e., it is dependent upon predation to acquire the energy necessary to sustain its life). Inasmuch as life itself cannot be killed (calibrates as true) but can only change form, the animal spirit lives on to inhabit another physical body. In the case of the human, the spirit does not enter the fetus until the third month of gestation (calibrates as true). In the lower animals, it occurs earlier but still awaits a viable fetus to energize.

With consciousness research, it can also be discovered that the ‘prey’ does not actually value physical life in the way humans do and, in fact, does not even notice the transition from physicality to its etheric continuation and subsequent periodic return to other physical bodies. If a fly or a moth is swatted, it goes right on flying along in its etheric body, unaware of the change, and soon returns in another physical body (calibrates as true). According to the ancient
Rig Veda
(cal. 705), each level of organic life ‘sacrifices’ its life to the higher and thus karmically sanctifies its life and earns its own evolution to higher forms (life serves higher life).

Humans who have had either near-death or out-of-body experiences or have experienced past-life regression can appreciate these statements. In all of these, the sense of self-identity is unchanged. It is always the same ‘me’. Similarly, in dreams, the dreamer’s sense of self remains unimpaired. This is also true in hypnotically induced past-life recall where the subject relives a very clear-cut lifetime experience and situation. It is always the same sense of self-identity, no matter what type of body form may prevail. Insects, therefore, do not even notice the transition, and animals consider their dream worlds to have the same degree of reality and validity as their everyday physicality. To the cat or dog, the dream chase has the same authenticity as a waking chase (calibrates as true).

The calibrated levels of the animal kingdom represent averages of the total population within which there is individual variation, and there is also variation in calibrated levels of behavior. Thus, ‘play’ calibrates about ten points higher than the average level of function, which is significant. Once a human family adopts an animal, the animal’s level of consciousness advances by five or ten points. Another area of major interest is that certain birds and animals that have experienced prolonged interaction with humans actually calibrate at 400. This calibration level indicates the capacity for thinking and reason; thus, the calibration level helps to resolve the argument among experimental scientists about whether or not certain animal behaviors actually reflect the capacity for reason.

A unique discovery is that a cat’s purr, a song bird’s song, and a dog’s wagging tail all calibrate extremely high—in fact, higher than a large portion of the human population. That pet animals have the capacity to interact and emanate love indicates an area for further research to discover why these beloved animals are capable of love, i.e., they exhibit an advanced development of the ‘heart chakra’ and have a therapeutic healing effect on people with a variety of illnesses (Banda and Lightmark, 2004).

In the evolution of animal consciousness, we know that at level 200, there is a major change in the quality of life that marks the appearance of the benign herbivores that do not need to eat others in order to survive. The grazer returns nitrogen-rich fertilizer to the soil and thereby sustains life. In addition, it spreads seeds in its manure, thus supporting the propagation of vegetation.

The prelude to what will later emerge as love and the progression of consciousness overall first appears in the animal kingdom in its primitive form as protection of the eggs and the young. This evolves in the higher animals into the maternal instinct. Thus, the critical level of consciousness at 200 demonstrates a major change of quality of consciousness from solely self-servingness at the cost of the lives of others to the more benign levels of caring for others and the emergence of family bonding.

With the emergence of bonding, group loyalty and social tribal behaviors appear, which, in themselves, secondarily subserve survival. However, group loyalty and pack formation also signal social conflict, with struggles for dominance, mating rites, and territorial domination, all of which are common to the human species as well.

From a developmental analysis utilizing consciousness research techniques, it then appears that the human ego itself is primarily the product and continuation of the presence of the survival core of animal evolution. This eventually is represented in the basic structure and physiology of the human brain.

Comparable to the evolution of consciousness in the animal kingdom, in the human domain, consciousness level 200 again demarcates a major critical change of quality. The levels below 200 indicate varying degrees of emotionalized egocentricity in which the rights of others are ignored. Above 200 there is the emergence of benign civility and concern for the lives and rights of others. At the present period of human evolution, 78 percent of the total human population on the planet calibrates below consciousness level 200, so the lack of concern for the rights of others is demonstrated on a daily basis, as reported by the news media (Public Agenda Poll 2002) and reflected in international savageries. (Currently in America, 49 percent of the overall population calibrates below 200.)

When we view the evolution of consciousness and the origins of the ego in the animal domain, we can understand that the ego is primarily the continuation of the animal level of consciousness within the human psyche. When viewed from an evolutionary perspective, an understanding arises that allows for compassion for that which has been traditionally demonized and condemned and has been the source of much conflict, guilt, and suffering. The ego is not overcome by condemnation, hatred, and guilt; rather, one de-energizes it by viewing it objectively for what it truly is, i.e., a vestigial remnant of man’s evolutionary origins.

Paradoxically, the ego is reinforced by condemnation, labeling it as ‘sin’, sackcloth and ashes, and wallowing in guilt, which is merely utilizing the ego to attack the ego, thereby reinforcing it. The vilification of the ego creates so much guilt that the most common way that human consciousness handles the conflict is through denial, secularism, and by projecting blame onto others. This is represented in our current society, which is obsessed with the model of perpetrator versus victim, leading to world conflict and the litigious and contentious qualities of society.

As Freud discovered, out of guilt the animal nature of man becomes repressed and then projected onto others or a deity that purportedly has the same character defects as man. Historically, man paradoxically fears his own projections and confuses divinity with the repressed dark side of his own nature. The ego is dissolved not by denunciation or self-hatred, which are expressions of the ego, but by benign and nonmoralistic acceptance and compassion that arise out of understanding its intrinsic nature and origin.

Although guilt and repentance may have a certain pragmatic usefulness for brief periods in one’s spiritual evolution, it is to be noted from examining the Map of Consciousness that guilt, self-hatred, remorse, regret, despondency, and all such negative positionalities are at the bottom of the list, whereas forgiveness, love, acceptance, and joy are at the top of the list, leading to enlightenment. The ego’s cleverness and innate self-dedication to survival can be appreciated in that large segments of mankind, often aided and abetted by dark interpretations of religion, have led the masses to seek at the bottom of the Map of Consciousness, which includes the avenues to negativity, rather than at the top of the Map, which leads to the realizations of advanced spiritual awareness, the knowledge of Divinity, and the nonjudgmental reality that underlies all existence and Creation.

The evolution of consciousness is also demonstrated by its progression in the evolution of hominids. Neanderthal Man calibrated at consciousness level 75; then Java man,
Homo erectus
, emerged at 80; Heidelberg man at 80-85; and then, six-hundred-thousand years ago,
Homo sapiens idelta
(cal. 80) appeared in Ethiopia as a possible forerunner of modern man.

Of very recent discovery is the hominid
Homo floresiensis
, a diminutive evolutionary ancestor who lived on the Indonesian island of Flores until approximately thirteen thousand years ago. They compensated for their small brain size by having increased neuronal complexity and calibrate at 85.

The evolution of consciousness of humankind overall has been seemingly slow. It did not reach level 90 until the time of the birth of the Buddha at approximately 563 B.C. The rate of evolution then appears to have accelerated so that by the time of the birth of Jesus Christ, the consciousness level of the totality of mankind had reached 100. During each time period, the percentage of the population that calibrated over 200 was quite small. Nevertheless, the
Vedas
out of ancient India’s Aryan culture calibrated in the high 900s, with Krishna at 1,000, which was the same level demonstrated by Jesus Christ and the Buddha. It took approximately two thousand years, however, for the overall consciousness level of mankind to move from 100 to the level of 205 in the late 1980s, and then again move another two points in November 2003, at the time of the Harmonic Concordance, to its current level of 207.

In addition to tracking the calibrated levels of consciousness of life in both animal and human forms over great periods of time, a significant inference is derived from calibrating the levels of consciousness of all life on planet Earth through the great archeological eons of prehistory.

Consciousness Levels of Archeological Eras

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