This is the journey, where the only real progress of
mankind takes place, which is the advancement beyond the hypnotic trance of
subject-object consciousnes and into the Nirvanic realm
of Bliss-Being and
beyond, where true Freedom and Creativity emerges.
This is reclaiming your Self, not maintaining the compulsion you
have become. This is understanding the Mystery of who You are, the journey Home,
Knowing you are Lived. This is what Jesus Knew. What Buddha, Lao Tzu, and all
the others have Known. This web page is just a personal and limited expression
of That. And when you Know, you Know there is nothing to become because you
already are It (but this is getting ahead of the game).
It's not free. It's going to cost you something. The cost of
Knowing who You are is the sacrifice of who you think you are; it's the
sacrifice of your self. Now, if you are psychotic, or what they call a
borderline, or where your ego defenses are a bit shaky, or you cling to your
self with a death-defying compulsive grasp, such a journey Home may be
contra-indicated for the time being (or where much more assistance is
indicated). Such a journey (on the more conscious path - it's all, of course, a
journey) is not even for the normally neurotic self as that self is simply the
socially conditioned robot, a mechanical-self, who has merely bought the
cultural illusion and rather desperately (neurotically) tried to live up (or down)
to that delusional condition. When the mature adult begins to experience the
true condition of itself, caught in the endless birth-death
cycle of objects, and begins to despair (which is the
natural agony of this level of consciousness) this may signal the beginning of the emergence from the social-cultural
trance. As the trance condition of the subject-object
consciousness winds down, just on the other side of
the despair, is the Awakening, the Realization, a new
level of consciousness.
The self's quest for Wholeness is the spiritual path. But the self
can never be whole as it is a fragment trying to be whole, generating the
illusion of its self. The self, for most, is not even yet understood as a
conceptual self, an illusion generated by fear and compulsive, unconscious
hiding from Life and Death. But, that's okay, normal, not to be condemned, but
understood. Also, be warned, this is not "new age spirituality" which is often a
defensive avoidance by the suffering self.
So this more conscious journey tends to begin, for most, only when
the trance of their usual self-activities begins to be questioned (or often when
some tragic event breaks through) and wears down in terms of meaning or
happiness, and so on. Here, the real barriers begin to emerge (as the more
conscious journey gets underway); and quite often when the more empty and meaningless
condition of the self gets stuck in despair most flee from this condition as
motivation, desire, or intent are not strong enough to proceed to the mountain
top. That's okay. It's perfectly normal. Each level up the mountain has its own
theater, drama, and cast of characters.
THE ONLY REAL DANGER IS MAN HIMSELF --Carl
Jung
Radical Consciousness
Radical Consciousness is what I call that consciousness beyond the
conventional level of ego-self. It comprises experiential knowledge beyond the
usual fusion with belief systems and social
conditioning.
A few have made this exploration and have attempted to communicate
what lies beyond the Homo sapiens constriction. Sometimes it is known as Truth,
Enlightenment, Higher Consciousness, and many other related
names.
I also suggest that the discovery and integration of this
Awareness is a developmental jump from Homo sapiens to Homo novus. It is a
mutation in consciousness, and an evolutionary leap from the Homo sapiens
constriction to what will be another species (which however is irrelevant to
the Realization itself). -
M. F. Taylor
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