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Radical Consciousness 
by M. F. TAYLOR

From the Introduction:

        The basic premise is that Homo sapiens are an antiquated species. They have established a base upon the planet earth, being the best killers, while developing their minds as self-conscious creatures. This process has served its purpose and is now fast becoming a retarded operation. Homo sapiens represent the adolescence of the human being. It is still a species that postures for identity and power. It still is motivated by fear, the base of its operations. Defense is its structural pose upon which its identity is grounded. The very structure of the self is maintained by "defense mechanisms."  All this creates a limited and constricted consciousness; energy which is repressed and wasted, but waiting to emerge in a more creative being. The creative release of this energy requires a new form to contain and mold. This is Homo novus, a consciousness that has greater access to an awareness beyond the mental-conceptual restric-tion that defines Homo sapiens.

        The following essays expose the limitation and constriction of Homo sapiens' consciousness within personal, social, and political realms as well as to suggest the solution, which is transcendence. Transcendence is the mutation from Homo sapiens to Homo novus, a new being. This is a shift in consciousness from the fused and embedded constriction of the "mental-self," the self-conscious constriction, to wider more inclusive and Aware realms. The shift is not simply an intellectual understanding, but an actual vertical step of consciousness beyond the mental or intellectual, and into the heart and spaciousness of a higher consciousness.

        From a developmental point of view, this shift is a mutation and not a variation of species. The shift does not create a better person or society, but a new society. The shift includes the lower level developments of the mind and intellect but begins to incorporate what the lower mind tends to exclude (Wholeness, intuition, Love, and much more).

        In order for this shift to take place, whether in individual or society, observation of the constricted behavior, with a Seeing and Hearing Awareness, needs to begin. The essays enclosed are a kind of observation from this perspective.