Truth vs Falsehood (9 page)

From the above, we derive further evidence to support the demonstration that consciousness has been progressively and unrelentingly evolving and that this advancement of consciousness is a quality innate to consciousness itself.

Evolution of Human Consciousness

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A seemingly reasonable probability could be derived from all the above that consciousness will continue to evolve because that is its nature, and the future of mankind can be realistically viewed as optimistic. This progression also implies that consciousness seeks to return to the awareness of its own source (calibrates as true). Spiritually advanced members of the human race have repeatedly reported throughout history that consciousness can and does successfully return to the awareness of its own essence and source (see
Chapter 8
). The ultimate levels of the progression of consciousness can be studied in the fully recognized sages, saints, and great enlightened beings that represent the most advanced levels of the evolution of consciousness in the human domain.

The Map of Consciousness primarily delineates consciousness levels up to 600 because in so doing, the Map includes over 99 percent of mankind. Although few in number, the extremely advanced levels of consciousness reported by the great sages of history reaffirm the evolutionary quality of consciousness and its ultimate progression on the human level.

As will be described later, the evolution of consciousness over level 200 results in a change in the brain’s physiology as well as the development of an ‘etheric’ brain that is nonphysical and composed solely of energy patterns. The higher frequencies of more advanced consciousness transcend the response capabilities of the physicality of the Newtonian paradigm and a protoplasmic brain. They instead require a purely energy body (‘spiritual’, ‘etheric’, ‘soul’) capable of response to very high-frequency vibrational energy fields (analogous to the capacity and capability of a computer chip versus a vacuum tube). Therefore, research devoted solely to brain physiology and chemistry, as interpreted by advanced theoretical physics and mathematics, is limited, and all such academic conferences dealing with the subject calibrate in the low to mid-400s.

The processing of spiritual information requires a nonphysical vehicle, and the brain is then understood as being a receiving set for information, as described by Sir John Eccles (1986, 1989). A description of the changes in brain physiology and its mode of processing will be presented in
Chapter 7
. However, it is interesting that the Buddha categorized thinkingness as a sensory modality and the brain as a sense organ, indicating that mentalization was a modality akin to sensation, touch, hearing, seeing, and taste. Thus, the Buddha listed man as having six senses rather than the traditional Western view of only five.

In summary of the above survey of the evolution of consciousness and its evolution as man, it is of critical importance to note that the capacity to think, reason, and thus mentalize did not replace the mental processes of the animal, but instead was merely added on to it. The animal consciousness is interested only in its own survival (including family and pack) and is not interested in providing for, nor does it recognize, the needs, the wants, or much less, the value of others. The downside of the consequence of the capacity for cognition when added to animal instincts is comparable to that of giving a gun to a child or a mentally impaired person.

To the ego, the intellect and reason were just additional tools and modalities of survival so that the intrinsic narcissistic core of the ego utilized mentalization to attack others. The mind could then subserve predatory purposes and pursue primarily narcissistic goals, which it still does in 78 percent of the world’s population. Thus, the spiritually unevolved ego merely utilizes the advances and technical discoveries of civilization for its own ends. Tribal war becomes nuclear war, teeth and claws become mine fields, and guns become the tools for robbery and murder. Instead of sticks, stones, and arrows, ballistic missiles subserve the pack mentality, territorial aggression, and the competitive dominance of the alpha males. Thus, humanity has been the victim of the unbridled oppression of egocentricity in its expression as megalomania (fueled by testosterone), which has killed more people than any other factor in history. (‘Malignant messianic narcissism’ calibrates at 30.)

The unbridled ego is insatiable, does not care about the rights of others or even the lives of others, and thus views Divinity as the ultimate opposition to its drive for absolute sovereignty. Cleverly, however, it solves this impasse by claiming to have God’s authorization for barbarism done in the name of “God,” “Allah,” for the “good of the faith,” “for Christ,” for the Sun God Quetzalcoatl (cal. level 85), or the God of Attila the Hun. (Even Hitler claimed God’s approval.) To the animal nature of the ego, religion is merely another tool in its arsenal by which to control others, thereby revealing the paradoxical truth that its inherent weakness is its dependence on others for survival, whereas true power is independent, self-sufficient, and devoid of neediness.

The power of love is demonstrated by the act of giving, and the weakness of the ego is shown by its neediness and insufficiency. Because the continuance of the ego is dependent on fulfilling its basic needs, it lives in fear (all megalomaniacs are paranoid), whereas, love is fearless.

A unique incident that demonstrates the transformational quality of love was reported in the Toronto newspapers (Dube, 2004).

A disturbed man, and potential mass murderer, had six thousand rounds of ammunition and multiple weapons. He intended to kill as many people as possible and then commit suicide. He could not be dissuaded; however, he was interrupted by a dog with a Frisbee who begged him to play. The would-be killer suddenly had a ‘change of heart’, dropped the weapons, surrendered, and then sought help for his state of mind. The lovingness of the dog (named Elvis), which calibrates at 500, effortlessly accomplished the miraculous, which neither reason nor entreaty could do.

From the viewpoint of evolutionary development, Homo sapiens is unique in that it shows such a wide spectrum of calibrated levels of consciousness within the same species. It is only very recently, in the late 1980s, that the overall consciousness level rose from 190, where it had been for centuries, to 205, and now to 207 (i.e., it moved collectively from self-saving predation to concern for others).

Despite progression of the statistical average, 78 percent of the world’s population is still below consciousness level 200, which denotes truth, integrity, and concern for others. It is from this vast reservoir of negativity that the world’s problems arise. World conflict would seem to be inevitable because of the great disparity between highly evolved segments and the vast proportion that lags behind and is thereby limited.

CHAPTER 5

The Essential Structure of Truth

The human mind has been unable to resolve the enigma of truth for several crucial reasons:

1. The lack of knowledge of the evolution of consciousness and its levels.

2. The lack of understanding the nature and structure of the ego and its origin.

3. The inherent defects and limitations of the ego.

4. The failure to realize the importance of the relationship between context and content.

5. The significance of a paradigm shift as a consequence of contextualization.

In the perceived, supposedly discreet, domain of the Newtonian linear paradigm, statements (‘facts’) are assumed to exist independently of the field or the context. The presumption, therefore, is that ‘things’, including ideas, exist in some purportedly ‘objective’, independent, self-sufficient, identifiable ‘reality’. As such, it is inferred that objective data exist independently of any knower of the alleged facts. Because these isolated facts meet the requirements of their own definition, they are therefore considered provable, and the hypothesis of a requirement for proof appears to be rational and capable of fulfillment. Upon examination, however, it will be discovered that proofs are primarily circuitous reifications of definition by which intention already determines the result by the process of selection of acceptable data, i.e., category blindness.

With sophistication and maturity, however, it becomes progressively clear that the criteria for truth change or are even completely offset by a change in the overall field. A statement is only true within a specific context, and the same exact statement can become blatantly false in a different context (situational ethics, impaired responsibility, mitigating circumstances, different time period or setting, different culture or historical period, etc.). These circumstances alter perceived truth and responsibility. It becomes clear that a reliable understanding of truth requires definition and description of not only the content but also the context, the overall field, and the intention of the observer.

Verifiable truth is thus a product of (1) content, (2) the point of observation, plus (3) the influence of intention, and (4) context, which again reflects (5) a paradigm (meaning). Academic science is struggling with the realization that the evolution of science is itself a product of consciousness, and that it has therefore moved on from the limitations of the linear Newtonian/mathematical model of reality to nonlinear dynamics and quantum mechanics, in which the Heisenberg principle marks the transition from a purportedly objective reality to the more advanced comprehension that no knowing of anything is possible from within the self-contained Newtonian paradigm itself. Nothing is describable or comprehensible except by the consciousness of the observer. Beyond those advances in awareness is the more recent discovery that by calibrating the levels of consciousness, there appear to be different domains of possibility and therefore actuality, as well as a critical differentiation between the qualities of force and power.

Content always exists within context as well as within a field of observation. The primary defect of the Newtonian paradigm is, however, the adherence to the intellectual construct of the principle of causality (cal. 450), which has only a limited pragmatic application. A simple diagram can clarify the situation:

CONTENT, FIELD, AND CONTEXT

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Event:
Perceived, linear, content

Situation:
Time, place, circumstances, influences, contributory factors, both known and unknown. Linear and nonlinear. Proximate field.

Infinite Context:
Nonlinear, infinite, omnipresent, timeless. Records all events and circumstances forever.

CONTENT, FIELD, AND CONTEXT