Finding True Democracy

I’ve been away for a few weeks catching up on some photography work and just enjoying life in general. 

This portion of the blog has to do with the creation of a “planetary” culture of responsibility, authenticity, integrity and wholeness.  If you have contact with any elected officials at the city, state or federal level it might be a good idea to pass this along to them. 

The culture of government and its partners, “big business” and their lobbyists are bent on destruction of our country. Those involved in that destruction increase their comforts and enlarge their bank accounts at the expense of those who elected them and those work within their structures (both Democrats, Republicans and many corporate CEO's of the largest companies in America).

It is indeed, time for a big change!!

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Leaders who are capable of dialoguing with others are catalysts for the generation of the culture of alignment.

Alignment is congruence of intention and commitment, while agreement is congruence of opinion and belief. Alignment is the organizational principle of the omnicentric ideosphere, whereas agreement is that of the concentric ideosphere. 

True democracy is possible only through alignment within an omnicentric ideospheric environment.

In the omnicentric environment, unity is attained as alignment of intention, while diversity of individual thought is appreciated, acknowledged and encouraged. 

In the concentric environment, unity is attained as agreement of opinion, while diversity of individual view is depreciated, suppressed or discouraged. While omnicentric alignment of intention requires allegiance to the self-authority of the individual, concentric agreement of opinion requires allegiance to a particular external authority that is the opinion generator and promoter. 

While unity through alignment is self-sustainable, unity through agreement is not; for unity attained through agreement sooner or later disintegrates into disunity, conflict and factionalization. 

Intention, when it comes from individuals’ authentic self, originates in the deepest of the deep of common humanity or human-unity. For this reason, unity attained as alignment of intention is sustainable. Therefore, in order to make a dialogue succeed, establishment of alignment is an essential precondition.

The culture of alignment will develop concomitantly with the culture of wholeness, integrity, authenticity and responsibility, because the consciousness that is aligned is the consciousness that has the awareness and the capacity for wholeness, integrity, authenticity and responsibility. 

As the culture of alignment is integral with the culture of authentic thinking and the omnicentric ideosphere, the triune development of authentic thinking, alignment, and omnicentricity will simultaneously require and engender the culture of wholeness, integrity, authenticity and responsibility.

The purpose of human life is self-realization. The evolutionary nature of the human being is such that self-realization, if authentic, requires ongoing self-transcendence. 

Thus, authentic self-realization is self-realization trough self-transcendence, that is, self-transformation. The process of self-transformation is tantamount to the evolution of human consciousness. 

Therefore, the evolutionary possibilities of human consciousness are the same as the transformational possibilities of self-realization. The purpose of human life is self-realization precisely because the intrinsic vector of human consciousness is in the direction of evolution. 

The evolution of consciousness has two distinct but integral aspects:

• The unfoldment of increasingly more holistic modes of consciousness.
• The creative development of higher orders of organization and greater integrations of complexity within consciousness.

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In the unfolding process of consciousness there are three phases:

1. The unfoldment of the objective mode of consciousness in which consciousness is aware of an object within its purview but not aware of the self, the subject of awareness itself. 

In this phase, consciousness is normally in a state of self-entanglement with objects, which leads to the introjection into or superposition upon the self of qualities that properly belong only to the objects of consciousness but not to consciousness itself.  

In the first phase, consciousness learns to objectify itself. Therefore, when we self-reflect, the self that is being reflected is not the self that is reflecting but it is the objectified self that is being projected onto the objective field of consciousness with qualities of an object that are introjected into it. 

The objectified self, or the object-self, assumes the role of the subject-self, and when it does, it becomes the ego. The ego is the object-self acting as the subject-self. The ego is the “me” acting also as the “I,” which exists by the virtue of its being separate and different from other egos. 

Confined only within the objective mode of consciousness, without awareness of the other two modes of consciousness, the majority of humanity exists as an ego separate from other egos. 

Human history thus far has largely been the result of multitudinous “egological” movements.” (i.e. the Federal Government)  If we want to change the course of history, we must therefore stop repeating this “egological “movement.  We must evolve beyond the ego by unfolding the other two modes of consciousness.

2. The second phase, the transcendent phase in which even the state of nirvana is transcended.

The mode of consciousness in this phase is non-dual and transcendent of the bimodality or duality of the objective and the subjective. The transcending of nirvana signifies the final annulment of all claims of the existence of a self.

Therefore, self-realization in this phase implies absolute self-transcendence in which the self as such is transcended. Both consciousness as object and consciousness as subject are annulled, and there remains pristine consciousness-without an object and without a subject, which comprehends both the objective and subjective modes as pure potentialities. 

This is the mode of consciousness known as mahaprainirvana in Buddhism.

There are many educated people who deny the existence of such a mode of consciousness as nirvana or mahaprainirvana, but an open-minded study of the spiritual philosophic literatures of the world would compel an intelligent researcher to affirm the evolutionary occurrences of these two modes throughout human history. 

"The Varieties of Religious Experience" by the philosopher-psychologist William James (who was not a mystic) and "Cosmic Consciousness" by the psychiatrist Richard Bucke (who was a mystic) are two of the most well-read classics in this field.

Further, the contemporary philosopher-scholar Ken Wilber writes, in point of fact, that there is no other way to authentically and legitimately prove the validity of the existence of the advanced modes as the evolutionary possibility that summons humanity on its inner search. 

To fulfill this possibility opens a way for humanity to collectively ascend to the stage of the post-egoic and trans-egoic evolution.

The first phase of the unfoldment is only the necessary but not the sufficient condition of being fully human. Only when we enter the second phase of unfoldment do we attain the necessary and sufficient condition of being fully human. 

For, only when we become conscious of our subject-self without objectification, do we realize our authentic self and fulfill the Socratic injunction, “Know Thyself.”

And until we realize our authentic self, we remain bound to the state of existential nescience and egological predicaments, no matter how well-developed and “brilliant” we may be in the objective mode of consciousness.  

3. The third transcendental phase of unfoldment belongs to the realm of transhumanism. Here we become conscious of the entire field of consciousness, comprising the objective, subjective and transcendental dimensions. 

To this transhumanistic whole-field consciousness, evolution is synonymous with creation. We partake in the creation of an evolutionary process and in the evolution of the field of evolution itself. 

If conscious evolution, in which we are conscious of the phenomena and principles of evolution, “the evolution to the second power,” the participation in the evolution of the field of evolution itself is the “evolution of the third power,” a possibility indeed of a kosmic proportion.

In the evolution to the third power, the “evolution of the first power,” which is the natural evolutionary trend of developing increasingly higher orders and greater complexities, becomes a conscious, creative and participatory developmental process. 

We become creatively engaged in the development of higher orders of organization and greater integrations of complexity within the objective field of consciousness, which is cognitively and energetically intensified by the compound impact of the integration of all three modes of consciousness.

Therefore, to be born human is to be born into the possibilities of being fully human and transhuman — of transcending the limit of the relative, objective mode of human consciousness. 

Hence, our kosmic journey of evolution continues. Evolutionarily we are not yet done with ourselves. The possibility that inheres in our evolution is indeed infinite.  For, our evolutionary journey is a transfinite journey which we take from the finite toward the infinite within the infinite.

My next blog entry will be the conclusion of this series... and onto some thoughts on alignment beyond agreement. Alignment is congruence of intention, whereas agreement is congruence of opinion. I hope you will tune in.

Again, thank you Yasuhiko Kimura for your words of wisdom during this difficult period of lack of leadership and global perpetuation of corruption.