The Emerging Cosmos
The Emerging Cosmos
by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet
The malaise of our civilisation is not an inchoate or unpredictable development. Rather, it is the logical, foreseeable result of thousands of years of partial and ineffective spiritual visions and incomplete philosophical systems. These have always been the driving force behind the evolution of higher mental forms. Therefore, if our civilisation stands at a critical juncture at present, it is not in the secular and scientific domain that we must search for the cause of the decay. We must discover what has been lacking in the dimension of existence that moulds the more external and material patterns which condition life on this planet."At present mankind is undergoing an evolutionary crisis in which is concealed a choice of its destiny."Sri Aurobindo
Once the root of the problem is located in its true area of causation, necessarily a change must be introduced in that sphere before the more external levels can be influenced. Thus if we can locate the root cause of the decay in that more essential domain, our task of bringing about a change in the individual and in society and of establishing a new world order on Earth is greatly facilitated.
Indeed, the crux of the problem lies here: for thousands of years sages, saints, yogis, philosophers, and men and women of wisdom have described the purpose of birth on this planet as simply a passage to a reality beyond not only our planetary home but entirely out of the cosmic dimension. The course our civilisation has taken can therefore be directly connected to this factor. The influence a vision of this nature has wielded has been devastating--for it has carried the planet and its multiple societies to the brink of total annihilation.
We may call this development a conspiracy of the spiritual elite which gradually influenced the whole tenure of life on Earth, spreading its tentacles of influence through religions and philosophical systems during the past several thousands of years, but now through scientific, political and socioeconomic systems. The latter can invariably trace their inspiration to some spiritual or philosophical source. For even our most material ideologies that apparently deny the higher realities of existence and focus entirely on the physical dimension, have done so by virtue of a reaction to those more metaphysical postulations.
posted by Indigobusiness @ Saturday, March 01, 2008
10 Comments
10 Comments:
Blah blah - stuff's OK but it aint livin - it might help if I gave a fuck, but Ize heard it all fifty times an' these dudes are takin a fat cut.
(I'm pissed cos my folks came round and they have this habit of saying the same things over and over year in year out.)
Of course shit is going on, dunno how or why - I serve, dunno what or who.
Z
Yeah, Z, I know what you mean, but I'm always supportive of sincere efforts to work it out.
I was a bit taken aback by the phrase new world order.
Reminds me of Scar - an songs like waiting for my work to begin - where lion and hyena reign supreme, some asshole said something about the meek, oh is that the time already, I have an important appointment at Waco and i mean that most sincerely.
Z.
Now that's painting with too broad of a brush.
There's all sorts of delusional abuse.
The real deal is what it is, and it ain't what it ain't. Too many get lost in the drama and lose sight of the purpose.
The delusional abuse is from those assholes who labour under the illusion that there is a purpose - with all due respect :-)
Z
What illusory purpose is it you respectfully deny?
The purpose I spoke to is the effort to transcend illusion, and assholes.
OK Indi - i THINK(?) I'm ready to discuss this. I swear I've been here at least 10 times to read and re-read this. (btw - I'm with you daily and think about you all the time.)
Thought has entangled the brain in time.
Thought has entangled the brain in time.
Thought has entangled the brain in time.
I understand this because the more time passes, the more my thought process seems to speed up. To the point now where I am beginning to think that I am slowly driving myself mad. can't seem to focus on a single thing. then i think maybe that's not so bad because if we get stuck on one thing for too long, that's not good. (i.e. religion) Not good in the sense that we can't completely evolve to a whole being (be entirely part of the universe) until we have let this whole thought process ability we have, come to an end. Maybe what I am fighting is this "unraveling" of everything:
"To end becoming...Of course, there is only complete security in nothingness!"
THEN - THEN!!!! I get to the New World Order part and literally freak out. And now I come back to your site for about the 11th time and see your comment about the 'New World Order', just after I had been over at the BigBrassBlog reading the commentsin this post
UNRAVEL ME BABY!!!
Dear JC- You really are the best.
I'm glad you told me that, I worry about you when I don't hear from you. Good to know you've been lurking, but you should know you ring my chimes as only you can. I tend to get a little cranky when I go too long unrung. ;}
You really have dug into this stuff, haven't you? I remember knowing you early on and sensing you awakening. I could almost feel you unfolding. So cool. I'll try to help if I can, after my usual disclaimer that I am certainly no authority. What gave me a leg up was a personal crisis, fairly early, that forced me to look hard and long into the abyss. I came away with new eyes.
The phrase used here of a new world order is creepy in the context we are accustomed to, but nothing of real consequence. Sort of like the ancient use of the swastika as a spiritual symbol before the Nazis ruined it for us.
The important thing here is the idea of conscientiously building our collective path upon firm foundations, recognizing transformative insights,and the consequences of accepting less.
Lots of pitfalls along that path, keep a sharp eye.
re: Unraveling...
Keep in mind, religion is only a framework for self-realization. A process, not an end in itself.
When it gets down to getting stuck on ideas like religion, etc, it's important to consider that you can let go of these sorts of moorings, you can get beyond them by letting go...when the time comes and the moment has been cultivated. A terrifying leap, for sure, but it's the Big Kahuna of the evolving spirit. It's the wall of the Bodhisattva (the true long distance runner). It is transformative insight. Genuine awakening.
You'll still have to take out the trash and slop the hogs, but you will never view it in the same way.
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re: Being and Nothingness
It's a tough nut to crack that we are NOW "entirely part of the universe". Everything is interconnected (see: spooky action at a distance) and evolving into our "whole being" is what it's all about. Our human duty, disguised as an option.
"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."
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Teilhard de Chardin had an interesting handle on this:
Taking evolution as his key idea, he saw the whole universe as an evolutionary process - what he called cosmogenesis. Everything in the universe, including man, was bound together in complete organic interconnection and unity. Matter and spirit were not two separate things but rather two dimensions of one reality. The evolution of the cosmos was the progressive spiritualization, or personalization, of matter, with God as the Omega Point, or fulfillment of the cosmic process, and Christ as the incarnation in time of this ultimate cosmic purpose. The emergence of human consciousness, the "noosphere, " on this planet was the leading edge of the cosmogenesis and the clue to the direction of the whole universe. With man, cosmic evolution became self-directing; it "folds in upon itself, " converging increasingly toward spirit and person.
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thank you for all you do Indi. I can't tell you how much you have opened up my head for me. I think you know though.
I just got a new computer (finally got a mac) and hope to spend more time exploring. I don't do well in the field of patience. our computer was so slow and frustrated me so much that anytime I would get on a certain idea, it always would lead me to more and more links along the way - the computer would lock up and poof - there went the thought process.
off to noosphere (?) now
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