Authentic Vision Leads to Transformation

Authentic vision is not that which we have but that which we are. 

Authentic vision defines who we are in the world and for the world. Therefore, our vision of manifesting “heaven” on earth, is the destiny that defines our mission and the moral principle that guides our actions. 

Now what is required next is the formulation of a strategic vision that will ground our actions.

Thinking as an authentic spiritual activity leads the individual to the realm of consciousness beyond thought, this realm is the source of spiritual enlightenment and of creative thinking.

If one were to pursue the path of transformation through authentic thinking, one’s path would be a path less traveled, for authentic thinking or authentic transformation is rare precisely because the common, ego-based human nature is such that people neither want to think nor want to do what it takes to cause transformation.

The following is the fourfold strategic vision as a way of manifesting our eternal vision.

Authentic thinking is a rarity in the world. Humanity at large doesn't really think and doesn't really know what it means to think. The relative absence of authentic thinking is a fundamental human condition resulting in misery and suffering.

Therefore, if we can bring forth a culture of authentic thinking, we will then be able to bring about transformations in the world.

If one were to pursue the path of transformation through authentic thinking, one should not be a “guru” who, as an external authority, would dispense metaphysical wisdom to his “followers.” 

Rather, one should commit oneself to facilitating transformations in human consciousness through provoking authentic thinking -- by asking questions that can cause breakthroughs at the foundation of what it means to think and to be.

Authentic thinking is the English rendering of kami-kaeru, the ancient Japanese word that, as kamgaeru in modern usage, came to mean “to think.” 

“Kami” has three basic meanings:

•   The union of the male and the female (symbolizing creation)
•   The body of light (symbolizing divine intelligence)
•   The invisible or the unmanifest (symbolizing the ground of being)

“Kaeru” means to return. Therefore, kami-kaeru means “to return to 'kami,' the ground of being and the divine intelligence, and then to return from kami, the unmanifest, back to the manifest world through the act of creation.”

Authentic thinking is a spiritual activity in which we express our deep intelligence and creative potential. Authentic thinking consists of a continuous complementary movement of meditation and creation. 

In the meditation phase, we return to our interior spiritual base, kami, while in the creation phase, we return to the exterior world of appearance with new knowing and inspiration.  

This two-way motion of meditation and creation is in essence how geniuses think in their creative fields. Virtually every human being has the potential capacity to think in this way. 

Unfortunately, however, the traditional educational systems more often than not, “de-geniusize” people. By not promoting authentic thinking, we are grossly underutilizing our intelligence and creative potential.

What people usually think thinking is, is what is sometimes called “information shuffling.” It is the mental process of arranging and rearranging acquired information according to an established organizing principle. It is a mechanical process in which no real creativity is involved. 

Nothing is wrong with information shuffling in itself. We need this skill to function in this world. But if information shuffling is all there is to thinking, we are grossly underutilizing our intelligence and creative potential.

When we engage in authentic thinking, we hold and uphold the whole (Kami) in our consciousness, and here the whole includes the dimensions of the unknown. 

In authentic thinking, we hold and uphold the unknown within our consciousness so that we become enabled to think the unthinkable. This conscious holding and upholding of the unknown opens a space for new realizations to arise, which in turn opens new possibilities for transformation. 

Therefore, transformation occurs always with the transfusion of the new, never with the re-translation or re-shuffling of the old. Authentic thinking thus leads to transformation. This two-way complementary motion of meditation and creation that constitutes authentic thinking is the evolutionary engine that powers human transformation.

In conclusion, I have nothing personal to add to today's blog. Yasuhiko Kimura, in my opinion, can explain these processes like no other.  As one of the foremost thinkers of our time, I feel his works should be shared with as many people as possible.

In my next blog we will discuss transformation of the “ideosphere,”  From the concentric configuration of the past (sharing the same center) to the omnicentric configuration (unlimited power, no center) of the future.