[02] - Spiritual Revolution

Original date: 2009/11/09

[1] The subject matter relates to Karl Marx and a revolt against the left-brain bias in today’s world. It refers to Marx’s preference for authentic isolation and his rejection of brotherhood, which gave him the space to do his critical thinking. To this I add a reference to brotherhood found in the last symbol: the Age of Aquarius stands for brotherhood, union and sharing of knowledge with all mankind. Our technology as a projection of our inner resources is now making this possible.

[2] We read that scientists acknowledge that sensory inputs are mysteriously filtered or supplemented, depending partly on past experience, to provide consciousness with a reliable guide to behaviour. But we can add to this the concept of a universal Mind that extends past experience to include collective memory.

[3] Christian teachings are silent on the issue of psychic phenomena because conditioning over thousands of years has suppressed investigation into innate psychic faculties. Resurrection for example actually means life in the spiritual body after the death of the physical, suggesting that the Church manipulated this belief for greater power over the masses.

 The synthesis of the these points [2+3] suggests the need to acknowledge the mysterious ‘something’ that filters inputs, that controls what consciousness becomes aware of. This relates to an awakening (a revolt) against the suppression of one's spiritual life, and to the discovery of the spirit body following death of ego (resurrection), and to the development of one's true potential by including psycho-perceptive skills such as ESP.

 The core issue relates to PERCEPTION as an unconscious interpretation of sensory data that the higher-Self controls. Vision for example is a critical faculty that appears capable of making decisions and of filtering information on apparently on aesthetic grounds. This means that one adopts a perceptual attitude to try comprehending what has already being decided. For Blake perception needs imagination to develop into an active faculty to see through the veils of illusion. The suppression of the spirit and the unconscious has given us lower standard to measure life against, what we refer to as the norm or normal. J.C. Pearce wrote that a developed intelligence is a developed creativity, one that can interact with a manifest order and lift chaos into order. And that we lack creative vision because that is the standard we set.

 As a consequence we need to look into the construction of the ancient oracle known as the I Ching.   Humanity has had the tools to navigate life, such as can be found in the nuclear hexagrams, but which were suppressed in the West. A change in perception: a mind-shift from believing ego-consciousness to be in control can set one on the path to developing an effective navigation tool for life.

 According to E. Polakow, we have a responsibility to be aware of the position of one's consciousness in relationship to one's Soular Sun (inner Self) and Source (Divinity), and then learn to navigate higher consciousness.

 Jung helped by giving the West greater insight into the concept of synchronicity and also gave the I Ching respectability in the West. In R. Temple's book (Netherworld, quoting Ritsema and Karcher) we read that the I Ching allows one to interact with the energy clusters or complexes of the psyche, and that changing one's relation to these forces can change what will happen to you because it makes conscious the goal of the situation in which you find yourself, providing information necessary to make choices.

 This download suggests using sorrow to reshape thoughts to overcome the conditioning blocking spirit and imagination (creative thinking), to extract energy and strength from a turbulent mind, and to resist an oppressing force. Being stuck in a conditioned state of illusion is a painful indication of not trusting one's imagination. This is a test to use one's mind to gather ideas and materials to develop a new strategy to liberate oneself.

 Having the right attitude to drive the revolution is to accept as W. van Dusen put it, that "the death of ego is the birth of everything else. Can I speak a language not taught me, a rich language, faithfully showing myself even when I am relatively lost and ignorant? … one has to let go of a conventional picture of the self to permit this effortless, wiser one to stand forth."  He introduced Emanuel Swedenborg as someone who in the 1700's did amazing work on hypnogogic material and the language of representations (images), which is what this project is all about i.e. to develop a language that will allow us to work with one’s higher Self.

 The right action is to individuate. One mechanism of escape is to identify the masochistic tendencies that make one give up the independence of one’s own individual self, and to fuse one’s self with somebody or something outside oneself in order to get the strength that the individual self is lacking. Fromm wrote that one seeks out secondary bonds as a substitute for the primary bonds which have been lost, in order to escape from unbearable aloneness. What is interesting for us here is that the other side of masochism is the attempt to become part of a bigger and more powerful whole outside of oneself that may be driven by a psychic compulsion.

 Weighted action? Heschel asked why the light of God was given in the form of language, and answered that this question betrays the sin of our age: to treat lightly the ether which carries the light-waves of the spirit. The level of commitment is therefore high, which is what anyone on The Great Path will tell you.

 The objective of learning a language of representation or symbols is to challenge the illusion of subjective ethical judgment. In philosophy one calls the person making an ethical judgment the subject, and conduct to which the judgment refers the object. The subject experiences certain feelings or entertains certain opinions as judgments. It follows that there are no differences of opinions because both relate to feelings and can be correct; and that a sound ethical judgment is therefore meaningless. Think of the masses under tribal and societal judgments that control them, and of the small percentage needing to break free to individuate.

 The final outcome for this download relates to the perfect number seven. D.F. Hook gave the following representation: stillness, meditation and prayer. It symbolizes a barrier or gateway for it represents the end of life. … In the Tarot the Chariot stands for liberation. In Numerology it is the number of mysticism, being a point of contact between lower and higher Self. Also 4 inverted is matter transformed. Sixteen is the first compound number of seven which in Tarot is the Struck Tower. Karma: Man has to strive to build his Tower, which must be perfect, or it will collapse. A warning?