Cyclical Revolutions of Evolution; Progress?

Dropping our sloppy preconceptions is not easy to do
Being the exception plays to Individualism's rules

The tools and rules our minds exploit to carve out human consciousness
are evolving like our species and contain a few useless remnants

Like the 'tailbone' of competition that causes a basal kind of pain
That old jealousy that preserved the apes makes us revert to them again

Nothing's the same yet life's cyclical; our children wear our worn out genes
And dropping preconceived jeans in public is much harder than it seems. 

The 3 Phases that Everything, and I mean Everything, Goes Through (According to Hegel) - PART 2

Dum dum dee dum...Phase 2 of the growth: 

Now this part is both paradigm-shifting and uncomfortable.   Remember what it was like when you first realized that everyone was forming opinions about you?  Everyone!  Ah, the glorious hyper-self-consciousness of the teenage years!  What dawning had you awakened to?  Metaphorically, of course.  I'm well aware that you hardly ever awoke at dawn in your teenage years!

You awoke to the 2nd of Hegel's phases: A Dualistic Split.

This involves a fragmented view of reality caused by fractured divisions between Self and Other.

- In religion this is typical of the Judaism.  A chasm between people and God leads them to live a nomadic lifestyle and live in, what Hegel calls “an unhappy consciousness” (42).  Wondering around, waiting for paradise.  Some Christians...a lot of Christians...still inhabit this mindset.  The Law is something imposed on them from above; something they can never live up to.

- In child development this takes the form of developing the analytical left side of the brain through education and acculturation.  The terrible two's say waddup.  This process peaks in adolescence, when the child realizes the power of their own opinions.   

- This is the modernist phase of philosophy in which Descartes’ “I think therefore I am” rules.  And it's all about me.  Humans abuse the planet to make themselves nice pretty outfits, or to make their bank accounts look nice and pretty.  Hey, everything is a bank account, we begin to think.  Time is divided into neat little compartments, each allocated to particular causes.  Time itself is a bank account with an unalterable balance that we continuously make withdrawals from.

It's an uncomfortable phase because it's the recognition of how far we have to go.  We suddenly understand something of how little we understand (for some teenagers that takes longer than others :)  But it's necessary. 

At this point you could run back to where the world was unified and everything seemed hunky dorey...and live a life of denial...

Or you could jump down the rabbit hole head first and hope that hitting your head on the bottom causes you to become open-minded instead of well...the Mad Hatter.

If he was sane he'd never be spilling the tea!

Link to: The Cyclical Revolutions of Evolution - Progress?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeZu8WqVozk

A link to my poem/video that I made that seems to be getting a lot of hits.  But since it wouldnt open when I tried it, here is the direct YouTube link.

The Next Step in our Evolution and what it Costs

Hasn’t consciousness been the primary vehicle of evolution in humans?  We realised that tools could make us powerful - that brain can outsmart braun and lead to its demise.  We made it, the sabre-toothed tigers didn’t.

The information age is the latest, and most drastic, transition period in humanity’s history.  We are now able to do virtually anything that people have ever managed to do since the dawn of time.  Us, personally, with a few taps on a keyboard.  What?!  We can learn almost anything, and communicate with almost anyone!  The Jungian collective subconscious is fast becoming conscious, and with united attention, I’m sure we can penetrate the veil that conceals Reality behind the secular.

Our kryptonite?  Busyness.  In a world where your mind is trying to fix a gazillion issues at once, there are few gaps in our linear thinking that allow us to even notice what’s happening – both inside ourselves and “out there”, as if there is a difference.  We are products of our culture, and culture is changing exponentially.  This evolving identity of ours can be disconcerting and scary, and shouldn’t be left to it’s own devices.  It’s essential for us to take the time to set the tracks of our own neuroplasticity routes.  When evolution is blind, it’s animalistic.  When it’s controlled, that’s the self-regulating “image of God” at work.

The move from the material to the mental plane has been happening for centuries, millennia.  But it’s evident more so now than ever.  A person can make thick cash by using their mind alone.  What are stocks?  Mutually agreed upon currencies, just like real currency is.  It’s no longer necessary for us to labor physically in order to thrive.  Is that a good thing?  It perpetually fills our mind with circulating abstractions and can easily steal our peace.  What is success?  You answer that.

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Information age as these ones and these zeros

are heroes when knowledge brings power

Information craze has got us trapped in this overload mode

with wisdom so elusive in this hour

But come on my friends.

just cos convenience calls, we've forgotten we can turn off the phone

and where does the invasion end when we invite it to control our own homes in silence

Your attention is a priceless commodity.

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On God and Philosophy

Evolution is self-correcting and so is faith. Evolution needed the big bang and faith needs a first step. Martin Luther King said “you don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” It’s only through the transmutation (tranfiguration) that occurs through the renewal of our minds that we can start to fathom these things. As Aquinas asserts, faith is not a way of knowing that leads to believing, but a way of believing that leads to knowing. Empirical philosophy is trying to put the cart before the horse and then whipping the poor equestrian!

Look, your conception of God is wrong, as are all of ours (courtesy of our finite minds). Although there’s proof that babies and animals have very different frames of consciousness than we do, any ENCULTURATED conceptions of God present in adult rationality are almost certainly flawed from genesis (as in both from the beginning AND also cos of Genesis the book). As usual, the finite symbols of language that we paint our rational consciousness pictures in are too dualistic to accurately speak of esoteric principles. The word “truth”, for instance, has been hijacked by empiricists and applied to a very narrow range of observable phenomena. This wasn’t the only conception of truth that philosophers originally pondered over. Truth is also a way. Its what is meant to be and, beyond human distortion, IS (ie. truth). Scripture says “test the Spirits [cos many can seem wise but aren't] and that “a tree is judged by its fruit”. So you KNOW that you’re experiencing God when the ongoing encounter produces the following:love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and self-control. It may sound cliched but these “fruits of the Spirit” are profound and empirically verifiable (at least psychologically) frames of mind. Seek and you’ll find bruv. It’s philosophers’ prerogative to conduct these kind of mental/spiritual/abstract experiments. You can’t see it as testing GOD (remember He’s not a fan of that). But test the power of prayer and the application opportunities that it produces (by following the inner promptings when the situations arise), and then check for increases in these Spiritual fruits in your life. And walla, you’ve found God. (For yourself at least, it’s a secondary concern to try and prove it to the empirically-obsessed who’s hearts are hardened.)

Seasons Change - An Analogy about Death

Cyclical Revolutions of Evolution. Progress?