Beyond the Silencing

of Spring

When Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in the 1960’s, she detailed how humanity had suddenly turned its great knowledge against nature, as with the invention and proliferation of deadly pesticides. The end result was that species of birds were dying, their heavenly songs silenced.

Actually living nature as such  or globally on Earth was threatened.

Deeper silence

Half a century later, we find a yet greater absence of the symphony of nature’s songs.

We hear less of the chirping of crickets, of frogs and less also of the buzzing of bees or the faint flapping of butterflies. The sterility of sound is increasingly deafening. Birds are dying in larger numbers and more quickly.

Can we reverse this engulfing stillness, this ever deepening Silence of Spring?

Here we’ll explore definitively how.

This helps greatly to move past a depressive and collective sense of helpless that gripped the environmental movement for decades.

Machines on the rise while increasingly life forms go extinct

Modern “progress”

Through Carson’s poetic writings, a new awareness blossomed, one that gave birth to the modern environmental movement.  Her observations challenged the thesis that our contemporary world is but moving along a path of rising progress. As a naturalist rather than mechanical engineer, her contrary observations served as a cultural shock.  In an age of countless new and exciting inventions and where a man had just been put on the moon, people didn’t know that our powerful modern technology could also create great harm.  This is reminiscent of when, in the 19^th century, Karl Marx began to look at dismal factory conditions – and where the Industrial Revolution had symbolized a “nothing possible going wrong” and the promise of but pure and endless progress  – as this was idolized.

What Carson brought to light, however, involved something much bigger going amiss.

She dealt with the fate of all of life on Earth intertwined.

Such a larger problem is also not as easy to fix. Carson herself was dying of cancer. She was a part of the same calamity involving all of life in an interwoven web.

Carson’s failing

Despite a love for Carson’s great poetic revelations, they exhibited one major failing.

There was her failure to point clearly to an underlying root cause.

If one fails to grab firmly onto the deep underlying cause, it is like not pulling a plant by its taproot. If the plant is a perennial invader, and not pulled by its root, it will come up each season and may take over a garden.

Annually we face ever more environmental problems.

Human beings are intimately involved when cancer rates rise.  What Carson railed most against, the use of pesticides, has actually exploded since.

Enhanced genetic engineering has implanted pesticides more deeply into the core of life (as with Monsanto’s Bt-technologies).

It has also allowed more intense spraying of millions of fields to accommodate Monsanto’s Roundup-ready seeds.

This might showcase how we have not pulled at the root cause – not enough to turn our conditions around.

Taproot causes can never be find on the surface…

When found they are hardest to uproot

Mechanical causes are superficial as symbolized by billiard balls colliding with each other by hitting each other’s surfaces.  There is a different kind of causality that is inner.  For example, if a runner on a track gets a cell phone call from a loved and decides from within to stop running, this appears to violate Newton’s mechanical law of inertia.  Newton told us such laws are cosmic or universal.  Thus in our modern world we tend to have trouble imagining inner causality as being a predominant force. This violates his vision.

So we are in the habit to look elsewhere or back to the surface levels of causality – and not within. Thus we never find the cause and are left feeling helpless.

Cause deepest within

With something as huge as our civilization’s whole posture towards all of living nature, imagine that indeed the cause is not just within but deepest possible within.  A metaphor for this is a flower radiating pedals in universal directions and from a unifying core. We then have to extend that physical metaphor as symbolizing something that happens deepest inside at the core of ourselves.

What then lies so deepest within? We can surmise it is our subconscious beliefs, formed early on by our elementary education, and such psychological roots are hard to dislodge.  Going further, there can exist collectively subconscious beliefs, showing up in our education, and established early on culturally – and far harder yet  to dislodge than personal beliefs.

This is because the view is re-instilled by almost everyone and almost universally.

 
Newton’s Principia

The Renaissance’s core beliefs

For our modern world, we have commonly shared root beliefs about nature have come out of what we call the “Renaissance.”

These involve some arrogantly presumed principles or “principia” supposedly forming the unifying order of nature. As expressed by Sir Isaac Newton, this was said to be mechanical and mathematical. His vision became culturally dominant or epitomized and represented the core beliefs of the Renaissance. This further catapulted the development of the Industrial Revolution and on must say, with explosive excitement. It was believed that this should and must lead all of humanity toward glorious progress.

A shock deepens

If things are now going wrong, and seriously (as with the invention of atomic weapons that could destroy all of life) as to where we have arrived,  it’s only logical that we need to go back to re-examine what has led us here from the get go. We have planted   a powerful seed vision long ago. Now we face several major and unexpected” black flowerings and fruitions.”

Could this mean that our glorious Renaissance vision, promoted passionately by Newton, is flawed in its guidance?

If so, what is that flaw? Given more insight, we might then be able to find a new seed to plant with. Otherwise we will keep using the old seed, not breaking the mechanical habit, not seeing anything wrong at all nor envisioning any other vision-directions.

We then destine ourselves to harvest not shinning progress, but a looming series of inventions and developments leading to our collective demise.

My own planting of a different seed vision within

In my youth I was a math prodigy. This was evidenced by one summer before high school picking up my first algebra book, and by the end of that summer passing a comprehensive calculus exam at Fairleigh Dickenson University. I afterwards won a regional math competition by a wide margin. However, at the age of 17 I had a high fever and probably a stroke. This caused my left-brain, housing mathematical abilities, to shut down. This experience shook my whole life to the core. I barely mustered the will to stay alive. My inner world essentially fell apart. But decades later I was hugely grateful for the experience. It woke me up where before I had been asleep. It helped me to retie my inner universe back together on a far more solid foundation. I no longer believed, however, in the math-based vision of nature that Newton had told us naively was “cosmically right” and divinely true. Armed with this inner revolutionary insight and shift, I reconstructed my whole consciousness of life. I gathered a new seed vision that also saved my life, rescued my spirit, and revived my soul. It was incredibly healing. It inspired me to become a naturopath wanting to heal others. Let me share only a few initial steps of what followed. It is a way of explaining to the rational mind, stuck in its ways, what a life-centered vision of nature looks like, and using a simpler language devoid of mythological or metaphorical images as expressed in ancient times.

Compared to the Essene vision

The Essenes and other ancient cultures came to very similar conclusions. Their seed visions, however, was often expressed in poetic and right-brain languages as written down on parchments known as the Dead Sea scrolls. This makes it difficult for the modern rational mind to grasp and agree with their view. It can dismiss such visions as nonsense or just lovely poetry or comforting imagination, rather than rational and solid truths. Here an intentional effort is made to explain a life-centered vision more in a more left-brain way, simply showing it to be the more logically and rationally solid view – one which when planted leads us to harvest what  is not rotting.

An outline

FIRST PRINCIPLE - At the core of nature is life. The American Indians, before the arrival of Europeans, lived in only natural terrains brimming with life and so it was much easier for them to take on this view. They had bows and arrows, not machine guns. They had rawhide teepees, not homes made of plaster. Today we are surrounded by endless synthetic creations. We retrofit nature to accommodate machines, as with asphalted streets.  When we walk into a supermarket, 90% or more of the food there is often no longer as nature provided it on her table. We not only live in homes made of unnatural construction materials that outgas but wear synthetic clothes and use toxic chemical cosmetics directly on our skin. Plastic plants replace living plants. Our foods especially are cooked to death and our medicines engineered.

SECOND PRINCIPLE– Imagine that the core of life, in turn, is consciousness (and not mystically or religiously understood but rationally) – as nature’s universal actual and matter-of-fact relationship of connection. Imagine that when so understood and with logical integrity, this is a pointing to connection in every direction and this allows for nature to be authentically and rationally One.

How to experience it -When we are conscious of something, we connect with it. When we are unconscious, we disconnect ourselves from experiences. A diabetic sufferer having neuropathy may step on a nail, and though physically connecting, will inwardly not. An Alzheimer’s sufferer can’t connect past memories well to present consciousness or often can’t tie together facial features enough to recognize the whole face of a life-long loved one.

THIRD PRINCIPLE – At the core of the mechanical seed vision is mathematics – and pointing oppositely to universal relationships of separation in all of nature.When we count three apples they are separate as 1,2, and 3. Blend them together to make applesauce and they can no longer be counted or mathematized.As a result, our “vision harvest” is a literal separation of all elements of consciousness. Our world’s core essence cannot be filled with consciousness and life and, at the same time, be essentially mechanical, separate-part-like or dead – which is what connects best with all of consciousness being separated. This is why we cry out in pain when cut, because life is connected through consciousness as a whole.   A roasted almond will not grow to become an almond tree.

Outline

of a life-centered

and healing

vision of nature

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

Introduction: Shifting from left to right brain dominance or what triggered my  personal shift toward a different vision of nature

(Healingtalks) As a child I was a math prodigy. This meant that by age 12 or as a young teenager I was able to master forms of advanced mathematics. Before entering high school I passed a proctored, comprehensive integral and differential calculus final at Fairleigh Dickenson University (accomplished within about 2 months after picking up my first Algebra I book) and later won a regional high school competition in mathematics, and by a wide margin. At age 17, however, I had a high fever and that triggered the equivalent of a stroke. It shut down my left-brain functions almost completely – both verbal and mathematical. I became aphasic, unable speak well in whole sentences. This took me to uncharted territories within. In fact I felt lost and like my world had fallen apart. I dropped out of attending New York University, unable to relate, and for about five years what kept me alive was  lived  in an intentional community located in upstate New York. It was founded upon  a spiritual philosophy left to us by the Russian philosopher Gurdjieff. The teachings of that community essentially taught me how to put my inner observing consciousness very high above – above the left/right brain divide – and to  help me fathom this most disrupting life experience I had gone through.

What I learned

This taught me something critically important. It even forced me to become, though I fought it for years, a worldview renegade, one that a)  stopped believing in the conventional vision of nature  – the math-based and atomic and b) actually formulated an alternative vision that was right-brain rather than left-brain dominant in its vista.

 Are YOU right or left brain dominant?

There are simple tests on the web, series of questions, that help determine whether you may be right or left brain dominant.  One of the questions on that link asks: do you prefer algebra over geometry or are you more analytical than visual?  Looking at the above pictures of the left/right brain divide itself, do you understand it better visually or via the pictures on the left or the verbally – the words on the right?    Are you more a  business person who loves to wear a suit and tie and feels comfortable in working in an office cubicle plus revels in making a million… or are you more a hippie who loves to be out in the garden, to   wear lose tie dyes with a flower in the hair  – and has a goal of being a spiritual master  meditating on love, peace and harmony?

Which above way of dressing, living and thinking do you better relate to?

I once interviewed Viktoras Kulvinkas and asked him what scientific or lab protocol he used at the Hippocrates Health Institute in the early years when they tested different sprouting and living food approaches. I was more than stunned when this former physicist answered that he prayed every night and communed with the Source! One need only look at his book Life in the 21st century – a best-seller filled with the drawing of Peter Max, to sense that he is right-brain dominant person on a high level.

Determining our personally or culturally favorite worldview

Worldviews are supposed to be objective – past personal and cultural biases. Right?

They should nakedly describe the world as is really is – not as we internally might like it to or believe it to be – no doubt!

But what if a whole culture can be tested and found to be either left or right brain dominant?  Is it possible that its internal view of reality is eschewed toward that internal proclivity?  Might there then be a bias, a lack of worldview objectivity, and for the whole of its population and its educational system imbued that view to its young?

Modern lab science is just science. It is not something we challenge or question on a far deeper level.

Is our whole civilization – our collective consciousness – more right or left-brain dominant?

This is not very hard to determine.

It is obvious which side we veer towards dominantly in our culture as a whole. Wall Street rules politics

Thus do politicians, or those who control our culture, wear suits or tie dyes?

Furthermore you can just take a look at how the hippie movement of the 1960′s was co-opted, and  by commercial forces armed with the law and uniformed police. You no longer hear beatle-style folk music dominating the airwaves, and with spiritual overtones.  One of the major steps taken to make this happen, and later in the 1990′s, was a consolidated control of the media via the Telecommunications Act of 1996  – so that the cultural revolution of the 1960′s could never happened again. When I was at an anti-war rally recently, with over a hundred thousand people in Washington DC, it had hardly any corporate media coverage – CNN, ABC, CBS, etc.  Owning even marijuana to see reality in a different way, though this is a healing herb, soon became a felony.

The left-brain dominance of our culture has appeared virtually complete.

Historically larger and more subtle way of seeing this

The right-brain dominant approach always takes a larger overview to see things in a holistic way.

Keeping this in mind, the internal nature of our language is actually a more important indicator of brain dominance than how we dress on the surface.

Back in ancient Greek times, the Greeks began to add vowels to their written language.

Without vowels, words had multiple meanings and one had to look at the whole connected context to understand what was being conveyed by a writer – thus needing mostly right-brain or holistic skills. Reading the Greek language originally had eye movements from right- to- left, indicating a culture that was right-brain dominant.

But about a hundred years after the introduction of vowels, reading started to become boustrophedron – like an ox plows a field or back and forth (going from right-to-left and then left-to-right and again right-top-left, etc.) – because the mind was too confused as to the dominance to settle upon. About a 150 years after the introduction of vowels (to give each word a more separate and  distinct rather than whole context meaning, reading eye-movements transitioned to settle on being  left-t0-right or left-brain dominant.

This had a HUGE cultural impact.

This corresponded with the beginning of the “Golden Age of Greece” and which, through the worldviews of Aristotle, Plato, Phythagoras and the atomists set the foundations of western civilization.  It took almost two thousand more years, or until the seventeenth century, that we find the adoption of the mathematical vision of nature – and which can be shown to be the very highest of high left-brain dominant worldview views (because math symbols are the high abstract means to separate all elements of consciousness) – or the naturally arising central paradigm of that left-brain dominance and bias!

Lastly, it still another 400 years to develop this culture proclivity – and to see the stark and often dangerous consequences in our daily lives.

Transcending the divide

The real significance of  going beyond the bicarmel mind – the split brain – understanding the common foundation of these two essential forms of consciousness is that we thereby – and only thereby – can begin to understand what is consciousness itself

Knowing both sides intimately

My experience as a developed left-brain dominant person (a gifted math prodigy and linguist) was instructive in this light. Then my being radically transported to the opposite perspective was ultimately enlightening.  At first I was lost and confused.  Then I was forced to evolve a transcending view of  this divide.  Ultimately I chose to use the right brain’s  – the more raw, deeper and in touch with the nature of consciousness,  to guide the left.

This meant creating a brand new language to teach the left side how to re-see reality in the right brain way (which normally has no language of expression) – the more naked, raw, word-stripped way. It meant evolving a non- math dominated vision of nature.

None of the ancient traditions sufficed for me.

Why chose a right-brain dominance and to arrive at a whole brain objectifying view?

Looking at the picture above, could it be possible that knowing exactly how the colors of rainbow separate and reconnect back to white light represents a metaphor for how consciousness functions – and is more significant that understanding atom in the mathematical, left-brain dominant view?

Right brain dominance means the two brains are brought together with the right being the master, the left being the subservie servant.

The left brain has an essentially separative way of seeing reality, the right brain, connective.

What implications does that have for evolving a worldview? Would you rather connect what is most separative (right brain dominance) or the opposite, take apart what is most whole (left-brain dominance)?

What if what is most whole in nature is organic life, and which dies when taken apart – so that the most extremely evolved left-brain dominant view might threaten the existence and survival of life on earth – as manifesting with the invention of atomic weapons, the spread of chemical pollution, genetic manipulations, and the extinction of species?

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor holding a sample brain

Contrasted to Jill Bolte Taylor’s experience

Harvard researcher Jill Bolte Taylor had a stroke that took her into the equivalent of another universe.  A short youtube on her experience has been seen by millions. She also wrote a best-seller book on the subject entitled A Stroke of Insight. T

aylor describes therein her entrance into another  inner world with blissful terms.

My experience and summation thereof was very different.  I decided to look at this experience from above, transcending the right/left brain divide.  From this, as mentioned and the reason why, I became convinced we need a right-brain holistic view to dominate the left. clinical experience tells us the same. When a person has a car accident where the right brain is damaged they become schizophrenic. Their inner world falls apart. When another person has a car accident were the left brain is damaged, they have trouble speaking because they disintegrate or tear their inner consciousness apart – and words, concepts and symbols guide us to do! They are handicapped in the opposite way.

My inner stance, as I regained my verbal and mathematical skills, was to no longer allow these to dominate as they had earlier in my life. I took a trans right-left-brain view and decided on a favorite whole brain view that made far more sense. One cannot connect a vision to wholeness, or bring the two types of inner consciousness together through disintegrative (left-brain dominant) perspectives.  I am certain of this from an ice- cold, freezing impartiality look from above the right/left brain divide.

This gave to me the priceless gift of being able to not only see this but to outline how to exactly and precisely bring these two vistas back together as one. With that we can finally see the objective (non-brain biased) view of our universe!

It is not at all the mathematical view we are familiar with.

Samuel Batalion, my dear dad, and at the opening ceremony of the Betar School (1947)

Why a brain-detached overview is personally important

There are two ways in which this is vitally important.

The first is on a personal level.

I can explain this best with the example of my own dad’s life. Samuel Batalion was a intelligent and quite vocal person. As pictured above he was an orator and leader. He also had many practical skills in life.  He founded the Betar school after World War II to help teach young Jewish men who had luckily survived the Holocaust. The school taught them  skills for a trade – or to become  a plumber, carpenter, electrician and so on. This gave them hope for a new life.

My dad, however, died of severe Alzheimer’s disease!

Why point this out? Because while he had so many great skills in life, he lacked the one skill I consider most important of all – how best to navigate our inner consciousness not to get lost, not to  not to literally slip into inner darkness. Lose consciousness and you lose all other skill sets. So wouldn’t such a premier skill be important? In fact, might it be the most invaluable of all skills we can have. We can learn the hard way, latter in life, that material possessions are nothing, have no real value, if the life within us slips away to enjoy them.

Why a brain-detached overview is culturally important

Back in the 17th century, several philosophers introduced the idea that nature cosmically functions like a Grand Clock or is but a mathematical machine.

No one expressed this more cogently than Sir Isaac Newton how ideologically led the way for the transition from the medieval to the modern world – and to the Industrial Revolution. His vision became dominant because he offered to chart the course of stars – a seemingly super-human feat. As one contemporary wrote, “Newton knew more about the cosmos than all of humanity combined.” His knowledge was so mythologized and revered. It didn’t matter than almost no one read or could understand his Principia Natural Mathematica (The Mathematical Principles of Nature) – except other mathematicians and physicists. It still, in my opinion, became the second most influential book of all of western civilization (second only to the Bible) because of its end-game insight – to chart how the earth rotated around the sun. This contradicted the view of the Bible. Genesis tells us that the stars were created to “shine upon the earth” as if the earth was the center of the universe.

With the Bible no longer being the highest or last word, but rather the word of Newton, all of western culture’s foundations were upset, and thus a revolution, a global mind change ensued. This is how Morris Kline describes this unique development in his book, Mathematics, A Cultural Approach:

“Infused with the conviction that reason, personified by mathematics, would not only conquer the physical world but could solve all of man’s problems and should therefore be employed in every intellectual and artistic enterprise, the great minds of the age undertook a sweeping reorganization of philosophy, religion, ethics, literature, and aesthetics. The beginning of new sciences such as psychology, economics, and politics were made during these rational investigations. Our principal intellectual doctrines and outlook were fashioned then, and we still live in the shadow of the Age of Reason….to win victories over nature.”

So powerful was this vast global mind change, that with the dethroning of the Bible came a challenge of Papal authority in Rome to delegate power to Kings and Queens. In one night, the entire royal family of Russia was murdered. The French and American revolution had a similar genesis. All of life changed with the transition from the medieval to the modern world.

This teaches us that nothing can change a culture more powerfully, deeply and widely than a new universal wordview. Absolutely nothing compares.

And there was an exuberant excitement in the air during the 17th century that what had been discovered would unleash a new era of progress – for man to control nature and all of life.  Little did they predict what is really happening 400 years later – a world marked by a) the invention of atomic weapon which can destroy all of life instantaneously, b) ever growing chemical pollution, c) with uncontrolled epidemics of chronic ills, and c) widespread dying of species.

There was one strange thing that happened in that era which should have clued us in that something might go wrong with the vision. Newton died a as a schizophrenic, something akin to developing Alzheimer’s disease or where the inner world falls apart.

Charles Kuen Kao (高錕 ), a Nobel Prize Winner in Physics who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.

Something should have clued us in, four hundred years later, when several Nobel Prize-winning physicists. chemists, and physicians have succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Above is pictured Charles K. Kao because there is a Charles K. Kao Foundation for Alzheimer’s Disease Limited named after him.

Do we need  a new vision of nature – and for what purpose?

I know with 100% or absolute certainty that we do. For me this is the result of a distant,higher-objectifying and detached overviewing of how the two sides of our brain develop their two polar opposite forms of consciousness in a narrow bias – and what is the essential and best way to navigate both to bring their vistas together as one.

It happens that the left brain, developing separative consciousness, can guide us best toward a navigation of the surface view. The right brain, oppositely, can guide us to best navigate wider and more important depths. It is the former orientation by which we understand physics and chemistry – the mathematical way of seeing things. It is the latter by which we  avoid the inner dementia that my dear dad and some of the greatest scientists of our time have experienced.

In fact, we can truly raise, uplift and heal that inner consciousness rather than seeing it slip away as we age.

Wouldn’t that be a most invaluable skill to have, and more valuable even than an apparent external “control” of nature,” of material things, which can so easily slip away from within?

That’s not the only value of this knowledge.

What if it could veer us away from all the developments of modern life that have allowed chronic disease epidemics (cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and so on) that have exploded in our times – and once we understand that on a deep level these are actually inner consciousness or depth ills that manifest symptoms on the surface of our bodies.

The means by which to do all of this is what I call a right-brain dominant vision of nature, the life-and-consciousness centered .

It is a greater, deeper, and more integral fathoming of our cosmos than that of Newton who guided (or misguided) us to the modern world. It veers away from looking at that world as made up of just matter and energy defined mathematically. It also does not hinge on or anchor reality in the look at an atom – and derivatively not in the structure of the periodic table of elements.

William James – Father of  American Psychology

Instead, it is, in my experience, we gain a commanding knowledge of our entire inner world, the ultimate purpose of the science of psychology. Wouldn’t that be something? William James,  father of American Psychology, once stated, essentially, that whoever discovers the nature of “consciousness” will make the greatest of discoveries of all  millenniums.

About the life-and-consciousness-centered worldview or vision of nature?

For brevity and better imagery taking on, I call it the life-centered vision of nature. But more essentially it really
a) defines what is the nature of consciousness and in a guru-like, expert or commanding way. It explains its role within, and how it forms much more – namely the inner essence of all of nature along with the essence of ourselves  that keeps us whole or illness-free and alive.

The dying foot of a diabetic

Not having this knowledge, we will never be able to consistently avoid consciousness diseases like Alzheimer’s or diabetes,  or where with the latter neuropathy is common in the extremities. Thus one can potentially not feel or be conscious of stepping on a nail or having the life in our feet cells and tissues die and fall apart or disintegrate.

Brian Clement, head of Hippocrates Health Institute, and which applies conscious healing principles, noted that in his nearly half a century of experience treating hundreds of thousands of patients he has never seen a single diabetes type-II patient who has not reversed their condition using his therapies. That is what you call a commanding knowledge and more significant than knowing the clock-like mechanical motion of the earth around the sun – what is only a surperficial knowledge.

What I want to thus impress thus upon the reader is that such knowledge is real. It is not about things that happen accidentally or appear as illusionary (wishful thinking induced). It is not empty philosophy but a knowledge to assuredly guide the navigation of our inner terrains – not to get lost, not to slip into inner darkness.

In order to communicate this to others, my main challenge has always been one of simplicity in expression. This is necessary because it is a whole brain and unifying view.

Historical Perspectives

Many ancient cultures, on all global continents, had attained a life-centered view. This is perhaps because all of nature around them appeared alive. Also the living forces were sacred as they kept all alive in an interconnected and interdependent weave or family of life. Many of these ancient traditions were trampled upon or obliterated, especially by the Crusades. Coming into modern times, we have little knowledge that survives about them.  But most notably, we do have a record of the vision of the ancient Essenes, a Judea-Christian sect, a group of healers who counted among them Jesus Christ, and who had a distinctly and powerful life-and-consciousness centered view. This survives in the form of the dead sea scrolls and their writings are more often called The Essene Gospels.

The Outline

Here is my offering of a simple outline that helps to present this vision.

I – FIRST PRINCIPLES

Planet Earth – an awesome video showing countless and magnificent life forms which

universally share one miraculous gift – sentience, awareness or consciousness

Central concepts

• LIFE ITSELF
  Imagine life lies at the core of nature
• CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN LIFE
  Imagine consciousness lies at the core of life making up its universal essence

(more pic’s to be added to the rest of the text later, please revisit)

WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS

• Imagine consciousness is the universal relationship of connection in nature
• the principle of connection itself
•  what connects all things to each other.

2) HIGHEST PRINCIPLE
The absolute highest reigning principle in this worldview and never subordinate (similar to the posture of  the Biblical God in the medieval times or to mathematics as supposed  the “last word” or defining of reality schemata in our modern times. Sometimes we call this also the supreme reigning central paradigm of a given or chosen worldview. It defines how all the elements are connected to each other and to create a chosen one-ing perspective – what we call a resulting or thereby constructed inner “worldview.”

a) PLACED FULLY ABOVE
As a result, consciousness is here conceptually or ideologically and literally or consciously and intentionally placed above all other mental conceptions or to consciously observe in practice how  words or concepts and symbols are formed by our conceptualization faculty – which is usually the left brain (though it can switch sides in about 10-15% of the population). We observe how our inner consciousness forms separate concepts and symbols to supposedly best understand the world to thereby navigate awareness. Consciousness is placed then fully above this process, and for both all religion and secular ideas without exception. Nothing is left sacred, including math symbols whose highest placement and claimed supreme navigation role in the modern view then becomes naturally challenged and as we shall see, hugely demythologized.

b) TRANS-SECULAR & NON-MYSTICAL
Consciousness so fully placed above becomes a more pure means to arrive at a trans-secular and trans-religious/mystical stroke of deepest insight.

c) INTEGRAL
Consciousness can integrally function as above only due to it being a universal relationship of connection. If it universally (and with true and integral universality) connects us to all things and connects all things to each other or among themselves,  then we can impartially and fully move to a mountain-peak view of the Oneness of all things being connected everywhere or universally as One.

This is in contrast to any culturally or personally chosen view – a partial-view or biased view – one connecting. Only to  a favorite or favored view of reality – and that is often forced upon people to believe in because the view is unnatural.

d) SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Our consciousness-centered view can then form its own true and truer science of consciousness, and derivatively of nature. Later we can explore why the conventional study of consciousness, and derivatively nature – has been made subordinate to a mathematical view (as required by the mathematical worldview being dominant and supreme). This means that the study of consciousness is ever subject to lab measurement to supposedly fathom what is consciousness. But this cannot lead us toward this goal integrally if consciousness is the universal relationship of connection in nature. It then has no separate beginning and end points to measure. Again consciousness has to remain the one and only reigning principle, the literal the “master” to form its own proprietary worldview – and all other conceptualizations then become the “servant” to that view. No exceptions, no matter how supposedly “holy,” “sacred” or “unquestionable” those higher conceptualizations claim to be.

3) AN INTEGRAL “INDIVISIBILITY PRINCIPLE“

If consciousness is the indivisibility principle in nature  then the atom is not. And the latter fact, that the atom is not indivisible but has parts, has long been proven by countless discoveries seen under an electron microscope. Yet that was postured as an unshakeable belief by Newton who claimed the ” indivisible atom was a divine creation of God.  It was a belief not grounded in our sense nor good logic. Still the mathematical vision’s atomic view is  held onto for dear life – for otherwise the vision might collapse – as it rightly should. Conventionally the atom remains central to the understanding of nature, as nature’s so-called building block.   Here the true indivisibility principle is consciousness, and  for very deep reasons that are also very simple. Only what universally and thus integrally and everywhere connects cannot be ever separated. This then holds true and has to hold true not only at every level of magnification (which the atomic view does not) but for the blended blur in between magnification levels artificially isolated or separated by our minds – or at every attempt to slice apart whatever we see under a microscope, and its tunneling of our vision brought into sharply cut and thus separate focus – or past the smallness of any perceptions within our consciousness.

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II – SECONDARY PRINCIPLES

Forming an integral worldview and piercing what is non-integral

• INTEGRAL WORLDVIEW- Posturing a principle of universal connection to connect all things is an intellectually integral posture. It is not subject to internal contradiction – or the by-product of many contradictions….an essentially  illusionary view (one that due to its contradictions and illusion will disintegrate the integrity of consciousness)..
• OPPOSITE OR WHAT IS MOST NON-INTEGRAL
• A HUGE MISTAKE – Posturing a principle of universal separation to connect all things is obviously not intellectually integral and if believed in, a terrible and very foolish mistake.  I dare say it is stupid. This takes a long explanation because it is so vastly counter-cultural to what we have all been taught to be believe. And such deep beliefs struggle to survive within us, like toxic parasites holding on for deep life when we detoxify.
• ULTIMATE INTERNAL REVERSAL ILLUSION – So imagine it is a starkest of all reversal illusions (and the greatest of all inner reversal illusions revealed or pierced through only by placing consciousness above) to believe that principles of universal separation should guide our connecting of all things to form a worldview. It’s like trying to use a chainsaw to glue all things together.  Imagine it is the ultimate right/left brain illusion to tackle, to see through – but it is not seen through either by a person or culture that is left-brain dominant. This is because the left brain essentially separates all elements of consciousness – so that process seems to be the natural, and to reflect the natural order of things.
• AN ILLUSION THAT HAS CONSEQUENCES – Lastly imagine that there is such a view and that it has more powerful consequences than any vast external illusions – such as the cosmic reversing of helio-centricity with geo-centricity (the sun centered with the earth-centered view).  Unraveling this external illusion lead to the creation of our modern world, with vast consequences. Unraveling this yet greater illusion has predictably yet great consequences still.
• WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE MATH-CENTERED VISION – So what is this all about? Shockingly,  the principle of universal separation is symbolized conceptually by the number “1″ – as found in pure mathematics and as a foundational concept in and of mathematics. One (1) this or one (1)that, applied universally we fins is a concept that invariably helps to separate an element of consciousness. Take three apples and blend them together and you can no longer count each as “1″ in the applesauce. The same is symbolized by a point in spacial mathematics …or what we call simply “geometry” or the measuring of space. The “point” is a conceptual means to actually “disintegrate thoroughly” or separate all of space universally into separate points. The two views – of pure mathematics and of geometry – are merged or married together and very brilliantly in Cartesian geometry. Cartesian geometry formed the basis for Fehmi’s formulas that created the atomic bomb – to indeed separate space – and as could have been predicted many centuries prior as a consequence of that worldview.
• THE MATHEMATICAL WORLDVIEW AS A WORLDVIEW - But worldviews don’t see themselves as worldviews, as biases. Nevertheless, what we visualize we create. Just as the atom is supposedly…that is supposedly according to the mathematical view ….forms the building block of nature (“the atom, what God created on the first day of creation” according to Newton).. so the number “1,” the indivisible one or 1/1=1 – and all related symbols that are built up around the sacrosanct number “1″ (such as 2,3,4…and fractions) or concepts indirectly referring to the same set of symbols (like using the symbols “xyz” to replace missing numbers)… altogether forms the mathematical worldview intellectually. Then this worldview is applied to all of nature as not a worldview but the worldview. Newton’s “Principia Mathematica Naturalis” is not Natural Principles According to Mathematics but The Mathematical Principles of Nature. This forms the tenants of the mathematical worldview
• KEY QUESTION – The key question arises, is that viewpoint really and truly -past cultural mythologizing – an objective, impartial and integrally wise inner stance?
  When consciousness is the arbiter of that very critical question (or is supremely placed above the pointing paths of math symbols) ….and to sacrilegious observe and judge their paths…what we find is that we can and even must demythologize that culturally assumed worldview.
• UNEXPECTED ANSWERS CAN BE UPSETTING - Needless to say and believe this can be hugely upsetting to a physicist, chemist or geneticist (who holds the wisdom of a super-idolized icon like Einstein to be supreme – and will fight tooth and nail not to upset and pull the foundations out from under their worldview. They rather want to continue to follow faithfully from behind the pointing path again of these held-to-be sacrosanct symbols, and without further wise or challenging thoughts. On the other hand, their worldview is not just culturally chosen. It is the highest of left-brain integrating visions. But this is not enough to justify its overall dominance for we find, not  surprising, that several Nobel Prize winners have died of Altzheimer’s disease or essentially that the mathematical view did not safely or effectively navigate their depths our consciousness in a rescuing way. Imagine this is not accidental, or that patients in nursing homes fed chemical synthetics walk the halls like zombies, Imagiine the underlying math-based vision is essentially flawed  – very foundation of modernity – and very, very seriously flawed as a worldview vision.This means it needs to be overthrown or dethroned, exactly like the medieval view when contradictions and illusions were discovered. But why and more importantly how can we make this global mind change?  The worldview which we have inherited from the 17th century, and perhaps from ages prior as well, not only can be shown to be not integral – to harbor contradictions and illusions – but to be danger-filled due to its core contradictions being applied universally.
• PLACING CONSCIOUSNESS ABOVE TO SEE SUCH CONSEQUENCES - Because Newton, Galileo and Descartes never really, in my view, placed their consciousness far above the use of math symbols,  to search for impeccable impartiality, trusting instead the unquestioned choice to follow the lead of mathematical guidance – and coming out of an age of faith – and following that to wherever this ideological posture might lead our consciousness – they collectively were pitch-blind to how dark a choice they had made and what the centuries-later implications would be – such as the future invention of atomic or nuclear weapons. To them chemical pollution was something unthinkable that wasn’t brought to our consciousness until the 1960′s (via works like Silent Spring). And Rachel Carson in the ending of that book refers to a primordial philosophy creating assaults on nature p but without pointing fingers.  We just trust that worldview implicitly, much as a modern physician prescribing chemical drugs trusts what he or she does.  Ultimately math symbols, naked seen, are simply universal symbols for how best to separate all elements of consciousness universally. And one cannot best connect a vision hereby. Its impossible.
• TOWARD A CULTURE OF DEATH - For the past four hundred years what we have been guided or misguided to is
• A CLEAR REVERSAL OF TRUTHS – and with consequences that are hugely global as well as non-sustainable.
• DEATH AND UNCONSCIOUSNESS-CENTERED VISION - This is because we are everywhere materializing the very extreme opposite principles that brings out not life and consciousness ( nature’s essence to the surface) but rather and again the polar opposite -  death and unconsciousness in nature.  This creates a disintegrating culture of death and where inner life is disintegrating as well, or a zombie unconsciousness. It is not surprising in such a mislead world tat we increasingly see the wholesale death or extinction of species.

III – TERTIARY PRINCIPLES

• RECAP – After  a) consciousness is postured as the singular supreme central paradigm, a road-map-constructing principle to re-navigate consciousness toward its own essence and toward the perception of Oneness, what is itself a life-centered vision of nature ; and b) that vision is seen as having integrity – we then can proceed to trust that view to move much further along – to move down the mountain peak to define the first duality of that vision on the road to the bottom or the diversities of all of consciousness experience. Obviously that first duality is not going to be matter and energy defined mathematically. But what then?
• SEPARATION AND CONNECTION
• PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION – think of it as any element of consciousness (a surface appearance because consciousness is  indivisible) as the essential movement away from consciousness’ essence and the experience of undivided Oneness. A physical metaphor for the nature of consciousness is any body of water which dissolves the separation of separate drops. The can appear separate on the surface, defined by separate surfaces, but lose the separativity inside the body of water.
• PRINCIPLE OF CONNECTION – think of it as any element of consciousness (a non-surface appearance or one having depth integrity) as the essential movement toward consciousness’ essence, its Oneness.
• FIRST DUALITY IS DEFINED IN RELATIONSHIP ONLY TO THE ONENESS - and nothing else (or arbitrarily chosen by a culture’s ideological bias and that a culture becomes attached to).
• CONNECTIVE MOVEMENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS SINGULAR and thus simple in nature (being a movement toward oneness and dissolving complexities).
• SEPARATIVE MOVEMENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS DUAL - creating the beginning of separate and clashing complexities.
• SEPARATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS HAS ITS OWN FIRST DUALITY – It is connective separation vs pure separation. This involves a connected spectrum, like rainbow colors, and of moving from partial unconsciousness and partial death at one end to full unconsciousness and full death at the other. Again the duality is solely defined by the essential nature of our world, and nothing else as a personal or culturally chosen view.  These become the true tertiary or third-level principles of this life-centered view.If we define “healing” in a living organism to be the process of inwardly connecting and reconnection that which has become torn or asunder, then an truly integral (and universally connecting, not separating, including with contradictions) view of our world is critically important for all healing processes. In fact, it becomes a means for re-guiding and revolutionizing the whole of our healing arts – and even healing consciousness itself.

IV – WHERE SUCH PRINCIPLES LEAD US

• AWAY FROM THE SOUL OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION – The exciting new natural science, the new proprietary vision of nature of the 17th century, was applied the most, and the most effectively, to the creation of machines.  The underlying vision was the  heart and soul of the Industrial Revolution – as well as our essentially commercial and materialistic (possessing separate things driven) society where human beings are guided to relate monetarily to each other and to nature in creating “progress.” That progress has some merit, as the mathematical view has some intrinsic merit in a servant, not master status and in reversal roles because it represents a reversal illusion.  Thus machines will objectively, if superficially, help us avoid what is not healing, mechanical chores, and this double negative that yields a superficial positive. But making our lives very deeply mechanical will destroy life itself. And we are in the process of doing just that, especially with genetic engineering. Also machines made of separate parts model the essential nature of the underlying vision that created them – rather than represent the deepest universal “Principia” or laws of nature.
• TOWARD THE SOUL OF A NEW AGE OF HEALING – Similarly the life-and-consciousness centered vision materializes its own best modelling but in an exactly opposite direction to that of just creating artificial machines that never exist in pristine nature. It models itself via the greater and greatest healing of living organisms – or in the healing arts made integral, curative and brought to perfection  (which is the opposite of what is presently the case). In an Age of Healing, the perfection of healing, of being connected as one – and which happens through a development of higher consciousness, becomes the primary collective goal of life – not the accumulation of money and material things as the key to a progress that illusioary – and eventually falls apart because the foundation is but quicksand.

V – HEALING ARTS BECOME PRIMARY – RE-GUIDED & CONSTRUCTED

When the guiding principles of a worldview tend to connect us to the essence of nature, we are reconnected to our own essence and thereby heal. Under the guidance of a life-and-consciousness-centered vision, what kind of practices will heal us and which will not?

• RE-UNDERSTANDING ILLNESS – If the foundation of nature is consciousness, separative and connective, and not matter and not matter and energy defined mathematically and charting its mechanical motions, what does this imply for the healing arts?
• EARLY STAGES OF ILLNESS – The early stages of illness tend to be inflammatory or acid because what is fiery, created by friction, represents the byproduct of “connective separation” – oppositional relationships that generate and fuel fire.  It is the beginning of the burning out of life and consciousness. This parallels how the fiery colors of the rainbow are the first to come about as color separations come out of white light, the colorless Oneness of light.
• LATER STAGES OF ILLNESS - The later stages of illness involve the movement toward pure separative consciousness or unconsciousness and death. We see this when a diabetic patient had neuropathy and no longer feels anything as a foot steps on a nail.

• REVERSING CHRONIC/SYSTEMIC ILLNESS – CURING THE INCURABLE  – Only a vision that integrally understands the healing process, the re-movement within to Oneness, can guide the curing of chronic systemic ills.  There are several major and effective paths up this mountain. All of them involve the regaining of what is life and consciousness in the body. Overall this involves the practice of natural healing – rather than using drugs, surgery, radiation and genetic modifications – and based on giving the natural healing arts their own supportive worldview with integrity – rather than trying to justify natural therapies with the very worldview that undermines and leads to a supplanting and destroying of the natural healing arts.
• FOUR MAJOR APPROACHES – Bring the best of living forces into the body (nutrition), take out the worst (detoxification), circulate both (exercise) and mind/body work to keep mind and consciousness on track.
• NUTRITION – This worldview advocates for a living foods diet, full of sprouts, green juices, green blends and superfoods – and that help alkalize what is acidic in the body and tend to be anti-inflammatory. This includes a low-glycemic diet. The simplest of green plants, the grasses, tend to naturally be the most healing or reconnective – and in the form of their juices. These are oxygen rich and we need to bring  more oxygen into our bloodstream.
• The concept of “oxygen,” while it belongs to the chemical/atom model of nature, is at the same time a bridge to the consciousness model. Having sufficient oxygen within, and in balance, is a means to reconnectively heal. When something oxygenates, it loses its life force unless there are anti-oxidants to ward that off. Thus freshly squeezed drinks should be drunk soon after making, and so the rest of the universe, which wants the same doesn’t get it and the force is released inside our bodies.
• DETOXIFICATION – Here we want to make our overall lifestyle organic, avoiding synthetic chemicals (the products of the 17th century worldview) and work to remove these same chemicals (not ingest more in the form of drugs or IVs) and other life-toxins from our interiors. We want to remove what undermines our consciousness, or takes out the light from within. This can be done through fasting, exercising to a sweat, taking a sauna, doing some special liquid cleanses, hydrating with pure water, taking enemas and colonics, as well as via skin brushing and lympth stimulations – among many other means.
• EXERCISE – This will improve circulation and, with aerobic exercises, will bring more oxygen into the body. Strength exercises will help build bone density, but the overall aim in healing is not to just develop separate muscles, as if the body was just a machine. It is to help heal and strongly carry the life force.
• MIND/BODY – Meditations, visualizations, realigning our worldview, healing our emotions, reducing stress or conflicts in life – all are valuable mind/body approaches to support healing.

VI – TESTING OUR WORLDVIEWS IN NATURE & THE HEALING ARTS

Because different worldviews each claim to best connect a vision of nature to Oneness, we can test each in nature – as well as in the healing arts meant to reconnect us.

• TESTING IN ISOLATED DOMAINS – In our modern world we measure (find beginning and end points of consciousness separation) and then test things in intentional isolation (as in a test tube) from the interaction of separate elements defined atomically/to fit the mathematical model of nature. We use fire (Bunsen burners) to effect this separation to greater heights in isolating chemicals.  This approach is especially applied to multi-million dollar drug testing – that is to the testing of patented drugs in isolation because patenting creates uniquely separate identity in the market place to focus monetary attention upon. We then look at the impact on isolate symptoms. But does that tell us what heals?
• TESTING NON-SEPARATIVELY – If we take a random and large mix of chemicals in order to test not one or another chemical in isolation but the whole chemical/math-based view of nature – and through that mix into a living environment like a compost heap, what happens? The compost heap is here chosen because all plants decay therein to form the building elements for all other plants in an unbroken circle of unity. So what happens with the large random mix of chemicals thrown in. We create a supertoxic waste site were all life there in dies and nature’s defining circle of unity is broken. In short the vision flunks out test in a more natural, rather than artificial environment.  In short, the isolative testing deceives. And part of the deceiving terminology is saying that what harms and even kills us is just a “side-effect.” It is not what is focused upon in isolative, non-holistic, non-objective testing.

VII  GREENING & HEALING OUR WORLD TO DEPTHS

We cannot green out world to depths without first greening and healing our ill worldview.

• ARCHITECTURAL METAPHORS – With a worldview that forms the dominant roadmap to our lives, you can see that dominance revealed in physically in soaring forms of architecture.Thus at the head of Wall Street is Trinity Church. Built in the 17th century to represent the ideology of the Church of England, the medieval view, with the steeple pointed to God, it was originally the highest reigning building in Manhattan. This has long been dwarfed by insurance, brokerage and the like office buildings – representing a different worldview.  George Washington knelt in Trinity Church, praying there to bring about a new world order.
• GREENING & HEALING OUR WORLD TO ITS DEPTHS – If we want to transform the world to its depths, this means not just recycling or saving energy (doing external things) but inwardly to our depths transforming our entire consciousness of the world – of what will make us more depth-connected to nature rather than more separate. We might need to question the universal presence of asphalt and cement, in City environs, covering the living earth. Cities were the places where monetary forces attracted people to live, from rural environment, to engage in the Industrial Revolution. But what if that revolution was based on a false foundation. Now we then need to thus reconnect the guiding worldview or whatever inwardly has been tearing us apart from nature. Choosing the highest symbols for separating all elements of consciousness is about the absolute worst choice for a vision’s supreme central paradigm – and not only worst and simultaneously most dangerous for potentially destroying all of life on earth.
• TWO OPPOSITE PATHS, TOWARD AND AWAY FROM HEALING – Such a worldview needs to be challenged, its dominance overturned and made subservient to a better view. If we connect what is most separative (right brain dominance) we heal what is most ill and threatened in our world. If we do the opposite, or separate what is most connected, we destroy conscious, organic life on earth. That has been our 400 year course, in essence, with superficial appearance of progress. One view creates a world of growing health pandemics and species extinctions and the other the opposite – toward an Age of Healing.
• SUPPORTING LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS - We thus need to support, not undermine, the greatest healing and promoting of our  lives, of our life’s consciousness, its essence and that of all of nature – and in order to not only heal ourselves but sustain the sacred living world that surrounds us -  interconnected and interdependent as One.

DEDICATION

This blog post was written on the eve of a Memorial to Melinda Lichter Elliott, my partner of four years and who recently passed. It is an expression of gratefulness, for Melinda, among other things, helped first set up raw-wisdom.com and which introduced to the world the life-centered vision of nature as here outlined.

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One man’s expression of the adoration of Life – part of his life-centered view, after having experienced war. The principal or highest adoration and reverence for life was common in the pre-modern cultures that were largely trampled upon, including that of the American Indians.

My early video that expresses the life-centered vision of nature

14 signs that the collapse

of our modern world

has already begun

By Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Editor Healingtalks

(Healingtalks) This is post is one of the most important we have put up.

So much of what is happening in our tumultuous world…..from earthquakes, river floodings and tzunamis, to the overturning governments in the Middle East and our own Occupy Wall Street movement…..is unsettling.

Why are these things happening now?

Here is an explanation you won’t find elsewhere

So PLEASE pass this on to friends and family. It is important.

My dad left Germany in the 1940′s just before its collapse, and after reading Hitler’s Mein Kampf he saw the writing on the wall.

When any person decides to become say…. an astronaut, football player, musician, actor or actress or whatever…. common sense tells us that their key decisions in life were made from deep inside, after some soul-searching along with the influences of  family, friends, teachers and their environment to then shape their lives. However, we don’t often think that way about what shapes the course of civilizations.

Perhaps this is because we don’t take serious the motto that ‘changes happen from the inside out.”

The dominant “religion” or highest set of truths for all the why and how things happen in our world is apparently physics and chemistry. They offers a mechanical explanation of the why and how of things or how  “changes happen from the outside in” …like a billiard balls might mechanically touch the outside surface of another after colliding to then move a ball in a certain direction.

Let’s assume the prior motto is true… the inside out one…and even for the collective or group consciousness. Then let us ask what is it on the inside view of modern civilization that is leading or misleading us to our demise.

What Most Sets of the Course of Civilizations From the Inside Out

Like the personal choice of a career, where to live, and whether to raise a family or not, the answer for the collective society might lie in something else – the core of the core of our vision of nature.

Why?

Because these visions tend to have certain beliefs that function as “central paradigms“  – some core view that connects the whole of understanding – the whole course of life – much like the center of a flower connects all the pedals in all directions.

Do we have such a central paradigm… a core of cores…. a ‘soul” to our modern worldview?

The answer is a resounding yes. Central paradigms give integrity to a vision and usually present.

The dominant culture-wide adoption of this particular central paradigm – taking root in the collective inner subconsciousness – occurred dramatically in the 17th century – and it is this process that has set us on our present course toward a precipice, to our own self-created demise and the destruction of nature around us.

A Global Mind Change in the 17th Century

Western civilization actually changed course from having a prior central paradigm or cultural soul.  It experienced what is called a global mind change.

It shifted radically to a new overall path during the 17^th century.

This was from the medieval, biblical or religious-led culture whose highest truth and/or central paradigm was revelations through the Bible to one a new reliance on the truths of astronomy, physics, chemistry, and related sciences. Did these sciences have a single common central paradigm that unified their separate discipline understandings as one?

They did.

It was the mathematical understanding of the universe or as Sir Isaac Newton expressed it in Latin the “principia naturalis mathematica.”

The vision also later developed its first duality, matter and energy, which E=mc2 attempted to reunite as one, mathematically of course. Its understanding focused around the atom, which in ancient Greek meant the indivisible 1, because mathematics is built up on integers with 1/1=1, or with 1 being indivisible. Thus nature’s building blocks had to be the same as those of symbolic mathematics. This was the new faith adopting by some in ancient Greece and which again came to cultural prominence and dominance in the 17th century.  That vision evolved, flowered and began to bear fruit in the 19-21st centuries.

This new highest, supposedly truest vision also led us onto the path of the Industrial Revolution and found a wecoming home in our modern commercial and technologically-driven world, departing again from the medieval, biblical God-centered view.

Mapping Out a New Course of Civilization From the Inside Out

How did the new understanding determine an overall course?

Well, the 17^th century was so extremely excited, self-assured and enamored by what they discovered  (and fueled by the Enlightenment belief that man,  under the direction of God, was destined to rule over all of nature and on a road of ever rising human progress) that objectivity went out the window.  Consciousness was not put above the mathematical view, rather the contents of consciousness were judged mathematically. Anything that couldn’t find precise math-correspondence wasn’t really real!

But sorry to inform my scientific friends, in my opinion physicists, chemists, allopathic doctors, and economists – all applying the symbols of mathematics in a dominant, central paradigm way – failed to truly see what they were doing in and to their consciousness. Even less did they have any sense of what they were about to do to the outer world “from the inside out.”

Stripping Naked the Illusions of a Mathematical Cosmos

There are four important things we need to know about the mathematical vision of nature, leading or misleading us on our present paths toward multi-dimentional self-destruction.

• Demythologzied – Stripped naked – and with consciousness placed above the mathematizing process,  first math symbols are simply mental symbols not something given to us by God to man in order to understand to the world.  It’s hard to imagine these days now this happened but the 17th century philosophers who promoted this view (resurrecting beliefs from the Golden Age of Greece) were devout Christians. It was according to Newton, that not only was the atom the indivisible one, like 1/1=1 and where numbers were the building blocks of nature but, to quote Newton, where “the atom was what God had made One on the first day of Creation.” This was a belief-directed vision that then took on the mantle of supposedly being objective or ‘scientific.”
• Universal Separation Symbols – What really is going on is that math symbols, being symbols or pointing tools for our minds, point abstractly or universally to how to separate all elements of consciousness. To separate universally is to most deeply and fully disintegrate. It is to map the course of things falling apart! Universal symbols of separation offer a misguidance.  If  everyone understood this, no one would adopt a math-based vision of nature – whose impact now is engulfing us because it is indeed being universally and deeply applied -  again from the inside out.
• Illogical and Irrational – It is impossible to best connect a vision, any vision let alone that of all of nature, by systematically and universally separating all of our consciousness of nature. This is why the vision is fails and cannot but fail us.  We glorify the Einstein’s of our times, while several Nobel-Prize-winning physicists have come down with Alzheimer’s disease. This is because the mathematical vision needs to be demythologized. It cannot integrally point to a deep and real understanding of the nature of our consciousness, nor of the depth essence of our world.  It is rather an illogical and irrational vision, one whose misguidance is powerfully dangerous.  As a final note, one can no better connect a vision of nature using the very highest (meaning the most universal) abstractions of separation than one can glue things together with one’s most high powered chainsaw.
• Machines Never Once  Occur  in Pristine Nature – Go to any forest, desert, ocean or mountain peak and you will never ever – not once – find a single machine in pristine terrains (human-untouched), not even a simple bicycle, unless planted there by man and as a biproduct of his internal math-led vision. It is man’s hubris that creates these unnatural creations to have power over nature, supposedly.  How can what never once occurs be the model for what everywhere and always occurs throughout our cosmos. It takes a certain insanity to believe that. Well, welcome to the modern world‘s insanity taken to be ultimate sanity. Its the same modern world where chemicals that cause cancer and yet are postured and used to supposedly cure cancer. Never mind that they fail 98+ percent of the time, as could be predicted. This pays homage to a diehard holding on to a bankrupt vision.Again the vision defies our senses, and logic, though we hypnotically continue to believe. When someday we will wake up from this bad cultural dream, we will see how it has shaped a world falling apart from the inside out. Then we can take responsibility for what we have created to chart a new course.

How to Get Beyond the “Core Religion” of Our Times

Conventional schooling brainwashes us not to question our teacher’s teachings. We compete to get A’s on tests by agreeing with rather than challenging our teacher’s beliefs.

The precepts of our basic sciences are given the aura of highest of high or unchallengeable truths.

We look to the invention of machines  (the ideological correspondence to that vision) for validation.  Don’t you love that Mustang, jet plane or cell phone? We mix up that fact that certain inventions can represent an aspect of nature, but not necessarily its soul.

Have you ever seen a periodic table of elements hung high in a science classroom? And like a religious icon to revere? This is even though it has long been proven by electron microscopes that a) atoms are not at all indivisible and b) the periodic table does not truly represent exact whole numbers of atomic masses!

What we really need is a different core view, something far less ideological and more rational, intelligent, and most of all integral. Then we can look to vision fruits that are not black and rotting.

How can we accomplish this?

I have outlined this in my many discussions and post as a math prodigy turned renegade – and about an alternative life-and -consciousness-centered understanding of our cosmos, and of all of nature.

This is a road map to the reconstruction of all the major paths of modern consciousness.

This re-understanding is the basis for a step higher global mind change.

It is a real turnaround that hopefully others will catch onto, our civilization from the inside out – and for me as the only real way it can effectively have an antidote to what makes modern living turn ill.

Unfortunately it is looming mass sufferings that trigger mass changes. I have seen this especially after I started an alternative cancer treatment center. Making a shift from a  diet of junk foods to quality foods tends to happen after a bout with serious illness or even being at the doorstep of death. We sometimes are not ready to make massive changes until we have suffered greatly or our life is nearly snuffed out.

Fast Forward to the 21^st Century

The signs major change on a societal or cultural level are nevertheless happening. It is both frightening from the suffering end and exciting at the same time from the liberating end.

We are waking up from a bad dream. It is the naive and blinded dream of unending progress fueled by a bankrupt 17th century understanding – and what has led us on this overall course.

Species Dying

We suddenly face an unprecedented, nature-destructive and non-sustainable world where already about 1/4 to 1/2 of all life forms are threatened with extinction.

But our world is falling apart at multiple seams – ecological, health, social, psychological (with an epidemic of mental and consciousness diseases) and political fronts.

And there is the pollution and disruption of our planet to the extent that now the whole eco-sphere of the globe is disturbed,  as with see with global weather crises rising each year in number and intensity.

Where the Clash of Vision and Reality is the Greatest

The arena where the signs of things in shambles are the greatest is the healing arts.

Why? This is because the healing arts involve our deepest connections to wholeness, and to use the most separative symbols to structure all of consciousness, including the healing arts, results in the most grossly anti-healing practices (exposing chronically ill patients to drugs, surgery and radiation) like using the most toxic chemicals that cause cancer to try to reverse cancer!

Like a religion whose faith is waning and falling apart, the faithful priests of that view (allopathic doctors, physicists, chemists, Wall Street traders and economic statisticians) may tend to refuse to face the reality of what is really happening.

It is heretics who may differentiate the shit from the toilet!

Shift in the Making

The exciting part is that we are privileged to see the closing of an era and the birth of a new one.

Now according to Mike Adams, there are now 14 signs that our modern world indeed is coming apart at the all major seams – and as we are living through a special time – the end of one era and the birth of a new one.

In the future, this will likely be called a momentous time. Here then are Mike’s 14 signs, largely unedited – along with subsequent comments.  We might have add a collapse of our educational system, geared to prepare our young for the commercial job market rather than living a higher consciousness, higher-aliveness, healthier and sustainable existence.

Also there is a looming collapse of our food delivery system, centered around supermarkets, Walmarts and the like.

All of this can be disturbing when one is not prepared for more sustainable solutions and alternatives.

So PLEASE  pass this blog post onto to friends and family.

It may be the most important post they will every read. We are living in changing times and don’t expect the support systems of the past to last.

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Mike Adams the Health Ranger’s

14 Signs that the collapse of our modern world has already begun;

#1 – Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis – At first it seemed like a fluke; but now it’s a pattern. The weather is becoming increasingly extreme. Over 120 tornadoes recently struck the U.S. Midwest. Texas is on fire and suffering through an extreme drought. And where there aren’t fires and droughts, there are floods. This is only the beginning… watch for more freak weather over the next 18 months.

#2 – The silence of the bees – Colony Collapse Disorder continues to accelerate across North America. We already know it’s being caused in part by chemical pesticides (and possibly worsened by GMOs), but the chemical industry is engaged in a full-on cover-up to deny this truth while the pollinators of our world suffer a devastating population collapse. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028218_p…)

#3 – The failure of nuclear science – The Fukushima catastrophe proves one thing: Scientists are dangerously arrogant in their planning of large-scale projects, and they fail to account for the awesome power of Mother Nature. Nuclear science promised us clean, green energy — but now it has delivered a silent, invisible poison that’s infecting our planet.

#4 – The vicious pursuit of Wikileaks – In an age of such rampant deceit, there is no room for the truth. So those who tell the truth (Wikileaks) are viciously pursued as if they were criminals.

#5 – The rise of the medical police state – The armed SWAT raids on Maryanne Godboldo in Detroit are only the beginning (http://www.naturalnews.com/032091_M…). The truth is that the medical system uses guns to force its vaccines and chemotherapy onto children and teens across America. The medical system has become so utterly useless, corrupt and dangerous that it must actually invoke guns in peoples’ faces just to “convince” people to take its medicine. This is a gunpoint-enforced medical monopoly that exists as a threat to our health and our freedoms.

#6 – The increasing frequency of food shortages and crop failures – Notice the spike in food prices? That’s just the beginning: Food prices will continue to skyrocket in the years ahead due to extreme weather, the loss of pollinators and the global contamination of crops by GMOs. Real food is becoming increasingly scarce in our world. You might want to think about starting a home garden…

#7 – The runaway destruction of the world by energy companies – The radioactive fallout from Fukushima isn’t the only way in which energy companies are destroying our world: Don’t forget about the Deepwater Horizon and the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — a spill that isn’t over, by the way. They’re still spraying Corexit in the Gulf one year later!

#8 – The continued GMO contamination of our planet – This may be the worst chapter in the coming collapse: The widespread genetic pollution of our planet through GMOs. This is a crime against nature and against humanity. It is a “gene spill” that may never be contained as it spreads its deadly DNA across the world’s food crops, leading to crop failures and starvation (http://www.naturalnews.com/032167_g…). The use of GMOs is the closest thing to “Satanic” that you’ll find in modern agriculture. The agenda behind this is pure evil.

#9 – The tyranny and criminal crackdowns targeting real food (raw milk) – When you can’t even sell honest farm food to your neighbors without being targeted and arrested by the cops, something is terribly wrong with the world. But this is happening today, all across America. Now the feds are even targeting the Amish! (http://www.naturalnews.com/029322_r…)

#10 – The escalation of the counterfeiting of the money supply – In a failed economic system approaching collapse, the moronic leaders can only think of “solutions” that actually accelerate their own downfall. The runaway counterfeiting of money by the Federal Reserve (with its “quantitative easing” and other counterfeit methods) is a classic sign that the end of our current system is fast approaching. The economic insanities are obvious to anyone who can still do math.

#11 – The plummeting intelligence of the masses – One of the most disturbing signs that we’re already in the collapse is the great dumbing-down of the masses. The drooling, CNN-watching television zombies who dominate our landscape offer absolutely nothing of value to the world. They are the “mindless consumers” who get vaccinated, watch television and eat processed, pasteurized junk food. They’re on psychiatric meds and believe everything the government tells them. Most of these people, of course, won’t make it through the collapse.

#12 – The complete and utter fabrication of the mainstream news – Much of the mainstream news is now utterly and completely fabricated these days: The reporting on Obama’s long-form birth certificate; the news about the war in Libya; the coverage of the economy and the U.S. debt… it’s all so utterly false and unbelievable that an intelligent person watching the news can’t help but explode with laughter. It is a sign of this collapse that the information sources relied upon by the masses are unable to report the truth anymore and must resort to weaving politically expedient fictions on everything from health care and medicine to the fate of the U.S. dollar itself.

#13 – The ongoing pharmaceutical pollution of our world – Beyond the GMO contamination and the radiation contamination of our world, we are also experiencing the mass pharmaceutical contamination of our planet. It’s not just the pharma factories that dump their products into the rivers (http://www.naturalnews.com/025415_w…); it’s also the fact that well over half the population is now taking drugs almost daily, and those drugs pass right through their bodies and end up in the water supply where they contaminate the fish (http://www.naturalnews.com/025933.html). Even beyond that, the drugs end up in the human sewage sludge that’s packaged and sold as “organic soil!” (http://www.naturalnews.com/029504_o…)

#14 – The radioactive contamination of the global food supply – Here’s one that’s really insidious: The global food supply is now contaminated with the radioactive fallout from Fukushima. We’re told the levels are “low,” but we’re not told the truth of how radioactive cesium isotopes persist in the food supply for centuries. How is the human race going to survive its exposure to CT scans, radioactive food, chest X-rays, TSA body scanners and even the secret DHS mobile X-ray vans that can penetrate your body with X-rays as you’re walking into a football stadium? The total radiation burden on the human race is now reaching a point of mass infertility. That may be the whole idea, actually.

It’s accelerating, too

December, 2012 may be a useful date as some sort of mid-point in the crisis, or perhaps as a trigger date for some further acceleration of society’s rapid unraveling. But make no mistake: We are already living in the collapse of our modern world. And you have a front-row seat! (Exciting, huh?)

Think about what’s happening around you these days. These are the signs of the last, desperate clutches of a civilization built on utterly unsustainable practices that don’t value life on our world. These are the End Times of the corporate oligarchy; the monopolistic for-profit corporation machine that destroyed everything in our world in exchange for a slightly higher quarterly earnings report.

In the quest for more money, humanity has sacrificed its food supply, its pollinators, it’s oceans, forests and soils. Greed-driven humans have used other humans as medical experiments and cannon fodder. We have created wars to sell more bombs, and we’ve invented disease to sell psychiatric chemicals.

These are the practices of a failed civilization… and one whose days are numbered. Watching it all crumble is far more interesting than watching it continue its destructive ways, of course, because those of us paying attention realize a future civilization must rise up in the place of this one after the collapse.

Say goodbye to the false power of institutions

It would be nice if our future leaders remembered the importance of liberty and personal responsibility, of course. The answer to all the world’s problems, it turns out, is freedom — freedom in medicine, freedom in economics and freedom from government tyranny.

Because, let’s face it: The root cause of most these problems that are bringing down our world right now is bad government. It is bad government (Big Government) that approved the GMOs. Bad government enforced the medical monopoly and allowed the pesticides to kill the honeybees. Bad government drove us into inescapable debt and costly foreign wars. Bad government outlawed health freedom and protected the monopolistic practices of the food companies, drug companies and chemical companies.

The downfall of modern human civilization is, as you probably guessed, also the downfall of the very idea that Big Government creates a better society. Because if there’s one idea that needs to stay dead after the collapse, it’s the idea that We the People somehow need another group of people (government workers) to live off our hard work while hounding us with their false authority, directing every little detail of our lives.

What we need in our world isn’t more government, but more freedom. If we had freedom, integrity and personal responsibility, we wouldn’t even be facing the global collapse that has already begun. But alas, the human race is an infant species and it must learn some lessons the hard way, it seems.

This lesson should be long remembered: If you let the corporations, the banks and the governments run your economies, your farms and your lives, they will enslave you and steal your future while you sleep; they will inject silent poisons into the very world around you until you awaken one day to find that all you created has been destroyed. They will promise you paradise but deliver only death. Beware of any entity that is not a living person — no government, no institution, no corporation has a soul, nor a heart, nor a conscience. They are forces of organized destruction that decimate those things we hold dear while delivering to us things that will only enslave us or harm us.

Beware the corporation; the government; the non-profit institution working as a front group for private industry. Never allow yourself to be ruled over by any institution which exists only as a fictional construct organized from the projection of human greed.

And be ready for the acceleration of the collapse. Because if you are reading this, you are the future of the human race. You have a duty to stay alive, keep your genes intact, and be around to help create the Next Society after this one crumbles into history.

Keywords: collapse of the modern world, modern apocalypse

Based partly on an article by Mike Adams, Natural News

What is conscious?

I have a strong and clear answer to this critically important question of what is conscious or not.

My convictions about the nature of consciousness are so strong that I feel someday I will impact millions around the planet.

When I was a teenager I had a very high fever that caused my left brain to shut down. This was after having been both a young linguist and math prodigy (expressive of the two most primary skills of the left-brain ).  Through that immensely challenging experience I learned new things.

One of these things was  that“consciousness” is a “universal relationship of connection to which we tap into  – and dependent on how conscious and alive we are.”   This is not human brain centered. Left-brain functions are brain centered but not consciousness as a whole. The left brain create images and words that are projected outward – giving the illusory appearance of brain-centeredness.

As a result, any living or sentient thing  – animal and plant – can be called “conscious.“

There is hardly a question more important to ask.

QUESTIONS OF IF…..
If you don’t know exactly “what’s life” and especially your very own intimate life force, how can you know the ways to best nurture, heal or restore life?

If  you want to become more and more alive, or in the negative, stop being devitalized or subject to an aging process, how is that possible without knowing (transpersonally and objectively), again “what is life?”

If that life force is seriously ill, how will you choose between different ways that claim to reverse illness – without knowing deeply and thoroughly …. what is life?

If  you feel  somehow that your life is our of sorts, how can you move to fulfill your life, again and again with knowing what
…….God help us all to know …. what is life?

If you want to live a long and full life, and maybe for a century or more, how will that be made possible without first knowing, and precisely for sure the secrets of …. what is life?

If you are seeking a diet that is more enlivening, and choosing between a regular, raw, and raw-living diet, what exactly demarcates the difference and why?

If life on earth is seriously threatened with extinction (with nearly 25% or more of all of life slated to become extinct in this century)  plus if the causes are humanly triggered, how can we best deal with this crisis and know what causes and can stop this, without knowing first what is life?

CONCENTRATED PRESENCE
My answer to these questions is as follows. Life manifests, and especially in living organisms, through the concentrated presence, expression or drawing out of nature of what is consciousness. The mathematical principles that design machines draw out of nature the mechanical, which is relatively not conscious.

Life draws out of nature its consciousness.

Consciousness thus forms, in my view, the quintessence or irreducible distilled essence of what underlies all of life – and the development of that consciousness then becomes life’s distinguishing characteristic and sets its deepest core purpose in existing.

Thus billions or more of plants, animals and microbial life species have , in my opinion, just one commonly-held characteristic. They are sentient. They react to their environment in ways that does not fit the mechanical, unconscious billiard-ball colliding model.

We see this awareness in all of life, from the largest of dinosaurs to the tiniest of nano-viruses.

Life and its forms come, however, in a variety of not just sizes, but shapes, colors, textures, and many other features. Some live in the air and others in the soil or underwater. A horse may, for example, move very quickly. But a tree stands relatively still, rooted in its whole life to the ground. A squash plant may grow horizontally, hugging closely the earth. A tree will grow otherwise, reaching up to the sky.

Each life species has its distinguishing characteristics but they all share what is life.

Looking at plants, and their reactions to their environment, the presence of consciousness is not as evident. Books like the  Secret Life of Plants bring out that this is not the case. Plants are sentient.

WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
Now if the bringing out of consciousness is the essence of life, this begs the question, what is consciousness.

For me, consciousness is the principle of connection itself in nature.

Continued in Part II

This is a continuation of Part I which explains how we relate to all of nature through our culturally-chosen language!

HISTORY OF ANCIENT WESTERN LANGUAGES
“Two scripts are well attested from before the end of the fourth millennium BCE: Mesopotamian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Both were well known in the part of the Middle East that produced the first widely used alphabet, the Phoenician.” Actually, a very recent discovery of cave writings thought to have been done by the ancient Israelites during their 40-year’s exodus from Egypt predate Phoenician writings. It is now thought that the Israelites developed their alphabet from the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the Phoenicians copied it. The Greeks are credited with adding vowels (since neither the Hebrew nor Phoenician alphabets had vowels), and the English alphabet was based on the Greek (and later Latin), not the Phoenician. “Most alphabets in the world today either descend directly from this development, for example the Greek and Latin alphabets.”  SOURCE:  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090112110219AAJkD6o

ILLUSIONS
Illusions can be called illnesses of consciousness because they involve a breakdown of the integrity of the inner world – and akin to the way our physical body breakdowns in a diseased state. Cosmic illusions are thus the biggest, most powerful inner ills of all.  They further manifest, when applied, in the wholesale breakdown within, and in turn making a mess of the outer world!

HEALING THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
Are we suffering from a grand inner illness that needs healing. I believe so.  Imagine that what this word “consciousness” refers to is really the principle of connection itself in nature, the glue that holds things together. This is not what we learn in physics.  The latter elicits out of nature, the mechanical – guided by math symbols designing machines made of separate parts.

Consciousness, life and healing are all about undoing separation to reconnect what is cut apart – as in the seamless reconnection of a physical cut (such as when our skin heals after being slit).

If we organize thus our whole cosmic view using abstractions of separation, guaranteeing left-brain dominance, I believe we will end up with an ill or schizophrenic civilization as a whole.

That civilization then starts to create, and progressively, a polluting global mess or a non-sustainable environment.

Life Centered Worldview

IMAGINE THAT:

AT THE CORE OF NATURE IS LIFE
This differs from that currently dominant view that the atomic  model, or other mechanical, death-laden, math-defined principles give us access to the core of nature – or what allowed us to create the Industrial Revolution.  If life is at the core of nature, what evidences that life? It is not just plain motion or jumping around. Machine can do that easily. Rather life exhibits consciousness, and whether in motion or not.

AT THE CORE OF LIFE IS CONSCIOUSNESS
Thus living things partake or bring out this consciousness from the depths or bosom of nature and  in a spectrum of life forms that include dinosaurs and microbes, trees and single-cell plants.

AT THE CORE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE RELATIONSHIP OF CONNECTION ITSELF IN NATURE
The resulting life-centered vision of nature then becomes an exact reverse mirror image of the presently dominant mathematical/mechanical view. This is because math symbols expertly abstract universal separation of elements of consciousness – going in the opposite direction from the essence of life. They point to the surface/separate appearance. This is why we can “best” use those symbols to build atomic bombs. Also pointing to mechanicality or to machines made of separate parts, we terribly eschew or biased rather than objectify our view of nature. We give too much weight to the relationships between nuts and bolts rather than a deeper order of unity. Focusing on this underlying and integral connectedness, we also arrive at completely different set of laws for nature, and the nature of ourselves, than those of math-bound, mechanical physics and chemistry.

RE-VOLUTIONARY
This perspective, if adopted, literally “re-volutionizes” or reverses our root metaphysical understanding of the cosmos, of nature and planet earth, and of ourselves – for the overall course, evolution and healing of our lives.

Toward A New Science Of Consciousness

In our ongoing series of posts on consciousness here we focus on the movement towards  a new science of consciousness. To envision that, we really need to carefully define our two key terms: science and consciousness.

Science
It is word derived from the Latin “scientia” meaning knowledge. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary refers more specifically to a “knowledge attained through study or practice… knowledge covering general truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through scientific method [and] concerned with the physical world.”

Forms Of Science
Here we refer to both a) the strict discipline that uses “the scientific method” for observing and experimenting rather than just vaguely believing in something about our world, and b) the body of knowledge that results from applying this method. There is also pure science looking for facts and applied science seeking applications of those facts tied together to form theories.

Consciousness
All words are pointing tools used to separate elements of our consciousness, and consciousness itself might point to the whole unseparated whole. Webster, not surprisingly, gives several definitions for consciousness. These include a reference to any quality or state of being aware, whether of what’s within or outside; and whether of sensation, thought, emotion or again the whole of all conscious states – and whether we are awake, aware, present, oriented or in dream and altered states. Lastly, and alternatively, it refers to “the upper level of mental life of which the person is aware as contrasted with unconscious processes.”  The etymology of the term conscious comes from an ancient Latin word conscius which means “to know.”

Thus the terms scientia (knowledge) and conscius (to know) thus beg for a marriage.

Contrast To Create Identity
Because “consciousness” partly refers to just about everything we ever have or could experience, or the medium thereof. It thus seems to be something very non-distinct. We, nevertheless, can give it a distinct identity via the quite stark contrast to “unconsciousness.” This is similar to defining a level of darkness by the level of the absence of light.

Close Association With Human Consciousness
Also we cannot experience consciousness in other life form. Thus we can only infer something like that exists (as by observing how animals act the way we do) . Otherwise the term “consciousness” is tied to just human awareness – and especially within our brain, including the higher order self-aware ways the brain might function.

Toward A Trans-Personal Definition Of Consciousness
Let us consider, in this context, the following alternative definition. It sees consciousness in an broader context than even the whole of what we humanly experience. Namely it postures consciousness to have some trans-personal and trans-human qualities as belonging or proprietary to all of nature. This is awfully hard, if impossible to prove with finality since we cannot really ever go outside of our own consciousness. We cannot do that trick anymore than we can jump over our own knees. Thus perhaps this is merely a pure inference. It is derived, however, of a kind of detached observation and therefore can form a quite sane theory. It is a theory of consciousness which can further be put to practice and even tested. This is why there is such a true need for a science of consciousness, namely and again to test such theories or to tell us which might be valid or not.

OUR DEFINITION
The definition here states that: consciousness forms the potentially universal relationship of connection in nature It thereby can form nature’s core essence  or what holds all of nature together as one to derivatively define its essential essence. This is like chocolate making up the essence of a chocolate bar.

Implications Of This Definition/Theory For A Science of Consciousness
The above definition and theory has some profound implications. If valid, if begs for a really new science of consciousness – and for that matter, a new science of nature as such. It focuses away from the presence of the western way of envisioning all of the essence of nature – as with the periodic table of elements or with the view of matter or energy defined mathematically predominating. The latter points primarily to a physical, machine-like world and wherein consciousness seems dispensable. It might either be of secondary, derivative, emerging,  irrelevant, or shadowy value. In more extreme views, consciousness is appears unreal, a phantom or the ghost in the machine.

Why Propose A Non-Mechanical Science of Nature?
How do we focus away from this western vision with our new definition in hand? There are two main ways. First, we don’t start with the intellectual bias of assuming that math symbols will exclusively lay open the bosom of nature. For the distinct identity of those symbols – those pointing and consciousness biasing tools -  is that they abstract  how best to separate all elements of consciousness, and b) the physical world is exactly what those symbols best point to or bias our attention towards. They cause us to prefer giving attention to what is most clearly separate in our awareness and also thus having separating surfaces in our vision. This is definitely the physical or material world or what is composed of “matter.” The assumption is that this scientific view is not a metaphysics or ideology of nature. But let us counter-culturally consider that  it is!

A Different Root Vision
Rather than starting then with this math-bound apriori metaphysics – an ideology that preferentially points towards certain directions – let us instead look more at the experience of both what is distinctly connective and separative consciousness – and in a pre-physical pure and raw experience of consciousness. Why chose this first duality? One side, the connective, points to the underlying oneness of nature, and the other as systematically away. Thus the origin of this duality is directly from nature’s oneness – as a true duality should and must be. This is why we don’t use words or pointing tools like yin yang, or matter, energy – each derived from a different cultural perspective.

Right/Left Brain Split
This alternative duality is easily correlated to the differences between our two main brain hemispheres, something well documented in empirical psychology.  The thesis here is that neurons do not produce this split in brain consciousness, or consciousness as such, but rather just tune in like a radio to the more primordial, connected, ocean of consciousness that precedes the separative-seen or surface-perceived physical world of our senses.

Conclusion
If taken seriously, the above view creates a deep and profound revolution in our whole knowing and understanding of nature as such or essentially. This is why a scientific study of consciousness can be so pivotal and important for different fields. This especially applies to the healing arts that treat consciousness ailments. Integral healing is usually a connection to wholeness, and if we do not understand the very root foundations of connection in nature, we will also not know how to truly, integrally and deeply heal ourselves and our loved ones. We can only treat them symptomatically because the understanding is surface-bound. Secondly, if science is exclusively associated with the quantitative study of what is but physical and material, and if at the very same time our new alternative definition of consciousness holds true, then any mechanical or traditional science of consciousness will predictably  fail.  It will fall flat on its face because it takes a very different, non-mechanical, non-mathematical, and non-consciousness-separative approach. This whole notion aims to overturn, to revolutionize, to form a global mind change in relation to the vision promoted by Galileo, Descartes, and Newton and which really established the inner foundation for our modern industrial/commercial civilization

Copernican Revolution - With the Sun at the Center

Are we in the midst of a consciousness revolution? The answer depends on our understanding these two terms.

WHAT IS A REVOLUTION?
The word revolution means a reverse movement a complete change in perspective – originally as applied to celestial bodies. It come from the old French and was latter and aptly to the  impact of the Copernican “revolution.”

“Nicolas Copernicas had introduced the idea that the earth might revolve around the sun – the reverse of what had previously been believed. This created a complete turnaround or “revolution” in our vision of the cosmos. The same word was latter applied politically, as in the French revolution, the American Revolution and also the Russian, Mexican and Chinese Revolutions – among the most popular applications of this term. There was also an Industrial Revolution and a Scientific Revolution. It was therefore applied to the vast changes in our ideas in many other fields, especially a revolution in our paradigms of physics. We also have the terms cultural revolution, market revolution, information revolution and sexual revolution. Interestingly enough, political revolutions tended to follow the ideological – including even the Copernican. Thus when Copernicus introduced his novel ideas, they later led to a loss of a degree of faith, culturally, in the Bible as the final say or arbiter in our understanding of the universe. During the Middle Ages, the power of the Pope in Rome was to delegate authority to rule of countries in Europe. This was dependent on the deepest faith in the Pope as receiving that vast authority directly from God and through divine inspiration.  When the dominance of the biblical worldview was challenged by Copernicus and later by the new scientific vision of Newton, Galileo and Descartes, there followed a derivative revolution in political authority. The entire royal lineage of Russia was murdered one night in the Russian Revolution. This overturned that countries political rule, among others and in the French and American revolutions.

ARE WE IN THE MIDST OF A CONSCIOUSNESS REVOLUTION?
Are we really undergoing a consciousness revolution or is this just a comforting phrase? That depends on how we understand consciousness and its dynamics. I’ve repeatedly emphasized and elucidated that, in essence, consciousness forms a potentially universal relationship of connection in all of nature. Now why is that, in and of itself, a revolutionary perspective? Well we all know consciousness interacts with our mind. Our mind forms outline images (which are translated into written and spoken words). These help us to focus consciousness in endless directions. They help separate elements of our consciousness. This can happen again in universal directions.

Now what if the more silent, quiet, meditative, integrative, pre-conceptual, word-empty mind (our right-brain) were to suddenly dominate our whole consciousness? Our worldview would then become more holistic and spiritual – as in the Buddhist traditions. On the other hand, if the conceptual mind predominates (the left brain), I would predict that an opposite material worldview would become dominant as more “rational.” I would also argue it ultimately becomes quantitative. Rational comes from the word “ratio,”  a mathematical term. This is because math symbols represent the very highest, most universal of all inner pointing tools of the mind to separate elements of consciousness and thus to point to separate matter. I think of this as the surface appearance of things, reverse postured as the most objective or depth view.

ON THE CUSP
It is finally my orientation that we are on the cusp of moving away from that current dominance of the present math-bound vision of nature, of physics, chemistry and biotechnology (the dominantly left-brain view of the cosmos) – and derivatively of a primarily commercial society. If this indeed occurs, it will be a genuine turnaround of the inner foundations of our modern world, of our modern consciousness. It will represent a true reversal in core brain polarities, and thus a true and real “consciousness revolution.”

Definition of Consciousness

We can diligently and carefully search the web to find many of what l call “standard definitions of consciousness.”  Here are a few examples of such definitions of consciousness, with critiques.

SOME  STANDARD DEFINITIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

An cognitive state
This makes the assumption that consciousness is tied to cognitive functions and thus much of what plants and animals experience would be considered unconscious.

A feature or force of life
Some Vedanta traditions see consciousness this way. Certainly some form of consciousness is a universal feature of life, but what does that really tells us? If bubble gum sticks to a wall, does that define the stuck-to wall?

The state of being aware
This is a very redundant definition. Awareness can be called consciousness and consciousness can be called awareness. It doesn’t really tell us very much. It offers no deep insight into what is the nature of consciousness.

Alert perceptions
To be alert is to be in a state of feisty awareness, which again doesn’t tell us very much.

Awake and self-aware
A living organism can be sentient, or present to its surrounding, and grounded in a time and space framework/reference without necessarily being self-aware. Does self-awareness really define the full spectrum of what is consciousness or in its absence, unconsciousness?

Higher order awareness
This is tied to a mix of cognition, self-awareness, and being awake or in advanced levels of consciousness – including having greater inner peace and heightened, clear and brilliant perceptions. But what give us the hubris or vain authority to be so selective in this  elite view of consciousness?

By-product of neuron firing
This reduces consciousness to various physical mechanisms. This implies certain organisms which do not have such neurons then do not have consciousness. Nevertheless they are sentient and aware, unlike rocks.

HOW TO GO  BEYOND THIS STANDARD LIST
We could go on with this standard list and related critiques. Keep in mind that with a valid definition we must ask:

a) Does it give us an objective, trans-personal, outside-ourselves point of view of consciousness itself?

b) Does the definition of consciousness have practical, proving and valuable applications?

None of the above seem to meet these tests for me.

MOVING TO AN ALTERNATIVE
Thus I’ve evolved an alternative definition of consciousness. This came to me after an inner experience as a teenager when, subsequent to a high fever, my left-brain shut down and I was thrown, outside of my mind, into a wordless and oceanic, connected and whole experience of consciousness. What I learned from that experience is the following definition of consciousness. It is one that yields revolutionary implications and also vast practical applications – mainly for the healing ourselves (as when we fall prey to consciousness illnesses such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, and diabetes) and the healing our planet. Such applications are  really the acid test of definition, understanding or theory of consciousness.

Alternative Definition
The alternative as well as extended definition is as follows:

Consciousness forms a potentially universal relationship of connection in nature.

This includes our own human nature and the nature of the world around us. Imagine consciousness underlies the thin surface appearance, the illusion of a world  fundamentally composed  of hard, separate, mechanically-acting, math-defined physical forms or “matter.”

Imagine thus that the underlying oceanic consciousness is at the real depth core of nature, of everything existing in the cosmos. We really never experience anything outside our consciousness so anyone who tells you this is far-fetched are themselves out of touch with their own inner consciousness. They are locked into the surface appearance. In my experience,  consciousness really forms nature’s ultimate and primordial essence and quintessence. Because “laws” are what “connect” events (as in the laws of cause and effect or the laws of action and reaction – including billiard balls bouncing off each other) then consciousness so defined as above suddenly underlies the taproot foundation of all connections in nature an thus of nature’s laws. This means that consciousness forms the authentic and abiding “principia” of nature, contrary to Newtons core thesis in his Principia Naturalis Mathematica or his “laws of nature as mathematical.”  Math symbols do expertly abstract separation and therefore cannot truly point to what connects nature in its essence – namely consciousness. Newton very abysmally and foolishly lost sight of this simple common sense. He was self-engrossed, bedazzled by his own newly invented calculus.  This critique of Newton’s vision may seem harsh, but I must beg to differ. We do need to revisit his old, stale, moldy premises, the ideology of his that took root to form our modern world. It is a vision that is now failing to work and falling apart. We do need, quite urgently, to make some vast and revolutionary inner shifts in our visions. Then we can uncover or bring out more fully out (as when we water seeds), nurture and discover the underlying laws of consciousness, life, and connection – rather than of the mechanical, death-delivering, math-defined, separative patterns that now almost totally predominate our prevailing industrial/commercial/material worldview. We need to re-structure our collective consciousness from the ground up or from its 17th century crumbling foundations. Why? Because those foundation stones has mislead a building process of the Industrial Revolution. That metaphysics has yielded a failing medical system, helpless in the face of pandemics, and focused on surface symptoms plus  misdirecting us towards a disintegrating, dying parade of living ecologies. These are not minor problems or crises. We need to thus face the root inner cause of global pollution, global warming and a more massive destruction of life and consciousness on our earth than ever before, and which is proceeding at ever faster and faster paces.

Going Past Current Definitions
Lame definitions of consciousness will not help us on this score or to extricate us from the larger, self-created problems of our modern world. They fall short in giving us the simple needed insight to  turn around our major looming planetary trends, derivative of an extraordinarily and extended loss of wisdom.

For more information on such a philosophy and definition of consciousness – and its implications  – visit http://www.raw-wisdom.com

WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS DEMONSTRATED

MORE THAN JUST A THEORY
A theory of “what is consciousness” generally consists of an outline image in our minds that supposedly points to something  real in the world on this subject matter. All our words and symbols are just inner pointing tools to something. Theories are organized ways of orienting or pointing our awareness to things in our world and in relationship to each other. Thus to demonstrate that a particular theory or set of ideas actually points to something systematic, real, valuable and predictable becomes an event.

THE HARDER PROBLEM
Consciousness, however, represents potentially such a vast-touching -upon-all-the-world phenomena that its exploration can take a trillion different confusing directions. Everything we know is something we know in our consciousness.  And sophisticated and intricate theories may only point to some relatively narrow or ivory tower vistas of a part of that whole. These can result in a variety of entanglements of mind which miss the whole point of seeing “what is consciousness” in its full essence. Or one can easily fail to fathom a truly inner-mountain-peak vantage point of this unified and vastest of arenas for knowing.  Adeptly using high abstractions (universal concepts) in a philosophy of consciousness and states of consciousness may thus give but the deceptive appearance of having latched onto this transcendent highest view with some mastery. This is the harder problem in dealing with “consciousness.” However this is easier to be said than attained. An acid test is whether that proposed theory or definition of consciousness can actually help anyone enhance their consciousness or resist the slippages into consciousness diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Otherwise the theory is  just so much  disingenuous jibber-jabber.

TACKLING CONSCIOUSNESS
One highly effective way to get past this “harder problem” is having again an authentically high overview and not a personal or cultural, conceptually-biased orientation. this means looking from above the pointing paths of all concepts because touches everything. This is as if one must look at consciousness from above the entire left/right brain divide which is a superhuman feat.  The left-brain conceptualizes. It forms outline images as pointing tools or the world of ideas as Plato referred to this.  It uses these ideas to separate elements of consciousness and thereby to focus one’s attention. The right brain does the opposite. It helps us unpoint and unfocus. It looks at things as a whole or connectively and non-conceptually or intuitively. Sometimes what is called “right-brain” ends up dominantly functioning in the left-hemisphere of the brain and visa versa because these are two forms of consciousness that are tuning into dominantly by one side or the other, rather than physically bound. One verbalizes and philosophizes with concepts and the other cannot and has no inclination or need.  Here I consider myself to have an advantage in overviewing this study of a trans-split-brain view. This is simply because first I was trained in dominant left-brain skills as a philosopher and math prodigy and experienced the exact opposite, a radical left-brain meltdown causing a brain polarity shift to right-brain or connective consciousness dominance. This was similar to what happened to Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard brain scientists who had a stroke that also shut her left-brain down.  It allowed her, and myself similarly, to  visit the internal highways in unusual ways – and from what I consider again a seeing from a higher vantage point. This didn’t mean that when I later returned to using  familiar words and comfortable sentences – speaking English or German or Chinese or Hebrew – that then I discounted the importance of words. I did not abandon the dominantly verbal/mathematical approaches of the west in favor of a solely non-verbal, intuitive, vague or right-brain dominant mysticism – as with indigenous shamans . On the contrary, I sensed the huge and profound need to bridge these two worlds. It seemed now that I had a gift, and could do so with an impersonal, conscious and intentional approach.

BREAKING GROUND FOR A DEFINITION
Ultimately I came to some unique conclusions about truly what consciousness is, and resulting in  the following definition and theory which I consider of priceless value for the development of a higher consciousness and a conscious mind.  When one enters the raw world of consciousness there is no such thing as a “theory.”  Theories only exist when right and left brain consciousness is severed. When I try thus to state this in so many words – but not really needing those words -  it may make little or no ripples with others at first if my language of expression is not translated.  It is like writing a physics formula on a blackboard and about how to create an atom bomb  – and without first explaining how to apply the formula. The formulas appear meaningless and insignificant – just white marks on a dark blackboard – except to a person who knows the vast implications and pointing paths of those symbols. The responsibility then remains to demonstrate the value of what is created by those symbols (and here for the making of not bombs but  integral healing of life and consciousness within ourselves and throughout nature).

WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
With this said, let me now offer a definition of consciousness that shakes the foundations of the western worldview – the matter/energy math-defined vision. Imagine that  consciousness forms a potentially universal relationship of connection in all of nature.

Just as chocolate makes up the permeating “essence” of a chocolate bar,  it is another discussion to show that this consciousness also and thereby forms the penetrating, defining and universal essence of nature  (and not mathematical relationships or the  postulated microscopic atomic/subatomic model as what should be centrally focused upon). This means that at the core of nature there is a dance of consciousness and unconsciousness, of connection and separation, rather than a dance of matter and energy defined mathematically. This one idea, theory or definition thus has the potential to change the whole of our vision of nature.   Or when adopted, it can change the heart and soul of the collective view of what is nature and the functioning of our cosmos.

A third discussion is how this same consciousness can permeate nature to higher and lower degrees. The greater permeation or concentration manifests in  life. This means that living organisms, rather than machines brought into being by math-designs, thereby represent nature’s core essence to be elicited or brought out to dominate natural terrains – rather than machines and what is mechanical.

Some philosophers may not at all be open to this kind of thinking about consciousness.

In their minds, they may think it is far more rational and flattering to view the essence of consciousness as tied to higher-order skills in human beings – include self-cognizance  triggered by human brain neurons.  Everyone can define consciousness as they choose, with resulting limited foci. The defining words I use point to a larger and highly revolutionary vision. Here consciousness is not seen as something small, special and proprietary to  human brain cells but as arising out of a universal cosmic terrain from the core of all of nature.  This may shatter the view of the Renaissance, namely of humans being so special.

This view also came to me via a dissolving of the functions of my left-brain conceptual faculty – leaving behind attachments to such flattering conceptualizations.

The foregoing definition still can for a long time remain meaningless until examples are given of how it applies. The applications are powerful.

Note that we really want to know 1) what best brings out consciousness or maintains, nurtures, supports and raises that consciousness and 2) what does the opposite or takes away, destroys, corrupts or lowers consciousness, and how and with what procedures we follow this divide.

AT THE FOUNDATION OF LIFE
Above we referred to a close link between consciousness and life.  Here we refer to, among other things, the sentience and awareness of all living creatures, not just higher order brain skills. It is this awareness that manifests with life and among millions of species as a common denominator. Let us therefore think for a moment of life as the concentrated expression and presence of consciousness. This means living organisms are expressive containers for what brings out the connective essence of nature (consciousness) and rather than machines (per the math-based vision of nature) reflecting nature’s essential laws. So what is the first sign of this special presence of consciousness coming out of the core of nature? Life per se.

Organic life brings forth also certain distinct common features. In fact when an organism remains alive will it retain its connected wholeness. It will display on the surface or as seen in a silvered mirror what I would  call the “badges of organicity.” These are  thin outer signs of  the more important full depth-inner presence of depth-connectedness.

These outer signs include the solar radiance of a flower’s pedals, the rings of a tree, the organic-in-form branching veins of a leaf, the swirls of sea shell, and so on. Again organic forms show off  these beautifully attractive badges when they are reflective of a more deeply present connected whole via living consciousness.

Consider the possibility that consciousness again lies at the foundation of that depth-connectedness which keeps all living forms alive.  Therefore when an organic life dies, it then predictably loses both  the outer organic badge, the whole appearance on the surface,  and its more important inner-depth consciousness or fuller connectedness with. Trigger this undoing of life with a bullet or surgical knife or sword -  cut a living organism progressively into parts – and again it dies. There are exceptions, as the hard form of shells displays the organic badge longer until time it’s elements dissolves into its surroundings.  Ultimately the body’s flesh separates into parts or “falls apart.” It turns to dust in earthen graves. The inner consciousness once connected it more deeply within, and to the world around it as well. Now it is no longer present. This is but a first step in demonstrating  how this theory, definition and understanding  functions in nature. Next we need to visit what are tell-tale signs of any rising, eliciting and support of the presence of  consciousness – and derivatively life?

MORE EXAMPLES OF HOW AND WHY
Here are a few more genres of examples. We can discuss the details in future blog post.

A) Water elicits life and consciousness
Water’s essence in the mechanical/math-based/atomic worldview is H2O. In a life-centered worldview it establishes the connective relationship to elicits life and consciousness from every seed – and detoxifies, purifies, and helps re-establish life and raise consciousness in ourselves. There are several ways of demonstrating how water so function, and in this context why it brings out the rainbow, forms bubbles, rounds the sharp/oppositional corners of rocks, puts out fire, and so on.

B) Fire destroys life and consciousness
This is works on the same principle in reverse. This is why various states of inflammation are acute harbinger of later chronic illnesses,  when inflammation is not healed. The effect is a lowered state of inner health, wholeness, connectedness and overall awareness. When a person is angry, or their emotions are inflamed, the This is why largely uncooked,

C) Love elicits life and consciousness; hate and fear the  opposite
Love establishes an emotional connective relationship. Hate and fear do the opposite. This is why an angry person is not well aware of their surroundings, another persons feelings, etc. Anger and fear inflame emotions and bring on fiery adrenalin . Love guides us to connective oneness with what is loved. Hate and fear brake us away from that connective oneness in our consciousness.

D) Money corrupts consciousness.
Money mathematizes awareness. The lusting for money makes a marriage with the mechanical worldview.  This lowers consciousness, brings us into deeper states of illusion and corruptions of consciousness – where illusion is the falling apart of the integrity of the essence consciousness, its awareness of connective oneness. A money-centered society thus traps others in countless deceptions. It  puts everyone in competitive opposition to each other. It elicits fiery friction and feeds on fears and addictions to move an economy “forward.” It does not integrally evolve our human consciousness, the essence of our being, and the key to our evolution.

E) Chemicals harm Life; pollute the environment; upset the ecology of the whole planet, cause species to die
Take a random and large mix of chemicals, to test not individual separate chemicals but the underlying math-based order, and the mix will kill and destroy all of life and consciousness in the compost heap. The compost heap is symbolic. It is were a large and random mix, in fact all plant life forms can decay to form the building materials of all other plant life forms in an endless and integral circle of unity. The philosophy of chemistry, the math-based worldview, clashes and thus when widely and deeply applied will destroy life and consciousness in nature. This is why we have an epidemic of species dying.

F) Surgery, radiation and chemical drugs – chief tools of allopathic medicine – fail to truly heal consciousness ailments .
We see this with the health epidemics of cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s. To reverse these ills both in ourselves, and on a culture-wide basis, involves a true and revolutionary global mind change – a moving to a different essential vision of what is the core  of nature, and our innermost being. It sets us on a different course to healing rather than ills. A true global mind change thus first heals our consciousness and its relationship to our mind’s understanding of the world, then emotions, body, and being in this world or to all that surrounds us each day of our lives.

What Is Consciousness

What is consciousness is no small topic at all.

LOSING ONE’S CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE LOSS OF A GREATEST TREASURE
There is hardly anything more sad and tragic in life than a progressive withering of one’s consciousness, especially after a life of richly gathering  knowledge, experience and wisdom. We see this especially in Alzheimer’s patients who can’t recognize their loved ones. This happen rather often and after long periods of  illness or insipid advancing old age. About half of Americans over 85 suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. With this receding of consciousness we lose the natural enjoyment, joy and zest for life. Life becomes a true drag. We may become chronically depressed with one foot in the grave. Colors then can become less vivacious, sounds less sonorous, thoughts less clear as the mind dulls, and motions slower and shaky. The ability to accomplish dreams is seriously impinged. We can’t pull really things off and pull them together.

WHY?
Whydoes all this tragically happen? Why isn’t life a more constant joyous upward journey? What causes this awful slippage into unconsciousness and how can it mostly be avoided or at least slowed?

COMPARED TO OTHER RICHES
Among one’s greatest life accomplishments a person can point to their livelihood  – as a  doctor, lawyer, accountant,  nuclear physicist, artist or entrepreneur. Or they may be a homemaker or parent. Without the knowledge however of what is consciousness, and thus the essence of life contained in different forms, all other riches and enjoyments of life can be taken away. One can say thus that the knowledge of what is consciousness (and as the essence of one’s life) is really the important study of all.

IF WE ONLY KNEW!
If we therefore and intimately knew what is consciousness and how it functions – whether how it rises or recedes – we could very greatly alter and improve the course of our lives.

BREAKTHROUGH KNOWLEDGE FOR HEALING
In my experience that kind of knowledge is entirely possible. It  is dear and precious to have. It can be accessible but only with an open, receptive mind that can think out of the box. One of my life aims, as I keep envisioning it,  is to write a popular book of  50 simple ways of healing the whole of ourselves, beginning thus first and foremost with a healing of our consciousness. This is because the healing of our consciousness is really at the foundation of all other major forms of healing.  This then supports and spreads out to improve the whole of our lives.

HOW I CAME TO THIS PERSPECTIVE
I came to this perspective through some trying experiences of my own, as outlined  in my bio. This influenced me to become a natural healer or naturopath – ever showing the path of healing journeys to others.

What Is Consciousness?

The question of what is consciousness is not at all trivial nor ordinary. For example, you can walk into a department store, go to the sports section and find a pair of skies. Or you can go to a library and find a book specifically about glass lamps. But where do you go to find what is consciousness or even just a book that truly describes what consciousness is?

NON-PHYSICAL & EVER-PRESENT
Consciousness isn’t something you can simply wrap your hand or mind around. It is not physically contained. No matter what we are engaged in, somehow consciousness is to a degree present. It is part of everything we experience. Does that mean it has no specific identity whose knowledge we can master?

CRITICAL QUESTION TO ANSWER
It has been my experience that this riddle can and must be solved. It becomes critically importance to know the answer when suffering from a variety of “consciousness diseases” - such as those evidence by neuropathy, lack of circulation where the bloodstream fails to carry consciousness to our cells. We see this also with diabetes and atherosclerosis. A diabetic will thus step on a nail and not necessarily feel anything. Someone who has had a stroke similarly has part of their brain or related body part no longer feeling. A sense of consciousness is lost. Alzheimer’s patients have this especially with certain brain functions. With metastatic cancer a given  illness spreads unnoticed to destroy life. Actually most all chronic and systemic diseases have some inner component that involves a recession of consciousness.  Thus knowing and understanding  exactly and precisely “what is consciousness” may be the single most important and vital of all question to answer in our times. This is why even Nobel Laureates in physics, chemistry, and biotechnology have fallen prey to Alzheimer’s disease. Somehow physics, chemistry, and biotech disciplines  have not yielded optimal answers to our key and central question.

PANDEMIC
Note also that consciousness diseases are very much pandemic in our times. This is powerful evidence that we are far afield in  our inner knowing of what is consciousness really and thus how to help support, nurture and retain rather than lose and hinder its presence.

SOLVING THIS RIDDLE
In my own life, I have come to certain powerful and clear conclusions on this critical question and not based on borrowing secondhand from the ideas of others I know or have read about from the distant past. This is not gathered from any ancient tradition such as  Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, shamanistic or other alternative views. Rather my breakthrough view came about via a rare left-brain meltdown. This allowed me to peep through a small hole to see our world “in a raw” or in a conceptually-stripped way – a view chronicled in my bio at www.raw-wisdom.com/bio. What I most deeply learned is that consciousness forms a potentially universal relationship of connection in all of nature. It is thus distinctively not an exclusively human attribute or possession, especially not of just our brain and brain neurons. This phenomenon of consciousness then internally unifies or forms the binding-together connective essence of our entire world! What a statement this is to make. This profound view also differs from the vast cultural assumption that has been promoted since  the 17th century that supposedly  matter and energy postured in time and space and described or defined mathematically forms the essence of nature. I find this not to be true but a surface illusion. This view spearheaded the Industrial Revolution and the distinctiveness of our modern world.

AS A NATUROPATH
As a naturopath, I have  applied a very different root understanding of nature and ourselves to help reverse consciousness diseases. The effectiveness of this reversal becomes a true litmus test for a real definition and also real (and not imagined or academic or philosophical or faith-based, or spiritual-tradition concocted) understanding of “what is consciousness.” Otherwise our theories are but self-gratifying nonsense that fail to liberate the conditions of impeded consciousness. Understanding “what is consciousness” when grounded in substantive objective reality forms thus a vast revolution in impersonal and true understanding – a revolution  in our whole vision of what is nature’s essence or the essence of the entirety of the cosmos we live in.

Knowing  thus “what is consciousness” can have some of the most profound and powerfully revolutionary effects on the whole of our lives.

Nature of Consciousness

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Nature of Consciousness

NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS – WHAT IS IT?
In a kind of comprehensive overview of approaches, Ken Wilber has a post on the Web taken from his Journal of Consciousness Studies article   (February 1997, pp. 71-92) and which outlines his Integral Theory of Consciousness. It  integrates twelve different approaches to apparently understanding the nature of consciousness. These include  the approaches of cognitive, introspective, neuro-psychological, clinical psychological & psychiatric, social and developmental psychological, psychosomatic, eastern and contemplative traditions, quantum theories, subtle energy studies and adventures into non-ordinary and drug-induced states.  The list is long enough to certainly make the subject matter confusing to some. To make matters worse, we could expand that list profoundly. Where then do we truly understand the core essence of consciousness? Is there a core binding-together essence or a disintegration into so many forms?

SIMPLIFYING THE UNDERSTANDING
In most all other studies of life one can garnish a specialized expertise. But the study consciousness potentially can involve all of life and all of knowledge that we consciously take in ad infinitum. How then again do we arrive at its core essence? An essence is something that universally penetrates and thus is singular and simple – like the essence of a chocolate bar being made of chocolate. We might add an almond to the bar, but what primarily permeates remains simply chocolate. Is there a comparable essence to consciousness, or something that unifies the whole – in and throughout all of the potential categorizations or approaches. In my experience the answer is yes. However, to arrive at the seeing of what that is takes a vastly transcending mental, beyond the right/brain split perspective.  You almost have to step outside and above the human mind/brain and its perpetual constructs to reach such a high perspective.

LITMUS TEST
Supposing you get that far, how do you know that your conclusions are trans-personally or objectively true – true from all sides and past side-views, subjectivity and limited biases? There is really a Litmus Test. Our modern world is presently plagued with a variety of what I call growing consciousness diseases. It can be argued that all diseases are really carriers of a consciousness-depleting element. Some are so more dramatically than others. Thus we can have cancer that silently or without our consciousness spreads to kill us. We can become severely diabetic, and where when we step on a nail we feel nothing as we suffer from neuropathy – a loss of feeling, a loss of consciousness in the extremities primarily. We can fall also into the throws of Alzheimer’s disease where our mental consciousness breaks down. Now if a theory of consciousness can be tested in its applications to help reverse all three of these and similar condition,  then we really and powerfully are onto something. With out such proof, we remain groping in the dark just as the patients with those ailments may be too.

IS THERE SUCH AN ANIMAL?
After nearly half a century of searching for such a viable theory, I can  honestly share my conclusion that there is such an animal. Most philosophers and scientists won’t make this kind of assured statement. I do because my experiences transcended my own personal identity or concern with such an identity. The implications of that “theory” I am referring to are revolutionary. The application are more than immensely powerful. For when one has a far better understanding of consciousness,. it  can truly help those who have let it slip away, unconsciously – which seems a terribly helpless state. When physicians try to help such patients, but they can’t, they too are at a loss to understand what consciousness is, why we need a transcending understanding.

IMPLICATIONS
This “theory” is such an understanding. Its implications are profound. When understood, it has the vast potential to not only help those who are consciousness-ill, but to more so overturn the very taproot foundations of our whole modern worldview or vision of the essence of nature. This may seem a very bloated statement indeed. But, nevertheless, in my experience it happens to be true. The fact is that what we take to be  our very highest truths in physics and chemistry – buttressed by mathematical formulations as the anchoring crutch, actually fail to factor in the existence, identity, or nature of consciousness in nature.

CORE PURPOSE OF BLOG
Once on does factor in that phenomena, everything else changes. As to this “theory” (written in quotation marks because it has ceased to be a theory for me)  it is the core mission of this blog and of our original and related site, namely  raw-wisdom.com
to bring out to the public this understanding.

NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
With that said, now let me present the gist of this theory states of consciousness’ defining identity. Through that special identity we can fathom it in a conquering way. I’ve not learned this via any lab studies because a laboratory setting and all the tools of measurement it coalesces are actually the wrong tools with which to understand consciousness’ essence. Rather my “theory” is the  result of other experiences. In my youth I was a math prodigy whose left-brain shut down temporarily forcing me to befriend an opposite brain vista. Later I tried to make peace between the split-brain views. Through that reconciliation, I came up with what I consider a piercing of the veils of consciousness. This requires super normal skills. I don’t state that to bloat my ego but simply because the need for transcendent is a given.

A DEFINITION
With this introduction now let me outline a set of words that for me best point to the quintessence of consciousness.  Consciousness can be seen as the primary potentially universal relationship of connection in and throughout all of nature. It thereby forms nature’s core essence and the basis for nature’s  oneness.

VAST IMPLICATIONS
Our math-based vision of nature no loner holds true if our definition of consciousness is valid. The nature of consciousness supplants what math symbols point to in defining the essence of our world. Just imagine how profound the implications of this simple statement are. Math symbols generally abstract how to separate all elements of consciousness. Given the prior definition of consciousness, however, math symbols then cannot possibly point us to the essence of nature. This violates of central and thought to be bedrock thesis of chemistry and physics – the deep assumption that mathematics offers a universal paradigm for integrating the objective understanding of the oneness of nature. Again the preceding definition denies that.

IS THIS VIEW OBJECTIVELY VALID?  OR A PERSONAL SUBJECTIVE VISTA?
Many think that consciousness is solely the byproduct of  human evolution as animals and plants presumably are not really, truly conscious or at least as cognitive and self-conscious.  To move to a more nature-permeating definition of consciousness, as in pansychism, requires proof or a Litmus test. Again suppose we can use our “theory” to actually reverse the most persistent consciousness illnesses. The details are outlined in this blogs.  Without such proof, the theory would only be a set of empty words promoted by our egos. With such backup evidence, we can advance our understanding of the world we live in – and of ourselves.

This is no small statement.

Consciousness in Nature

DEFINING CONSCIOUSNESS
An effective study of Consciousness In Nature is dependent on how we first define the term “consciousness.” A word is an invention of the mind that serves as a pointing tool of our consciousness. How do we uniquely point that consciousness, using words, to nothing but itself? If we associate this word with an advanced human cognitive function then “consciousness”  becomes something narrow or severely constrictive to point to. It becomes just a human attribute. In my experience, this may only help us feel superior when in reality this is a deep illusion born of  what I call a left-brain dominant ”hubris.”  Hubris is a wonderful  ancient Greek term that means overbearing pride, presumption and arrogance. Yielding a sense of superiority, it feeds the drive to dominate and control. When we are so driven to conquer “it” – or something outside of us including nature – then that outside “it” becomes separate from us. When we are at one with something, there is no inside/outside group to contend with. There is no need to conquer and no need for a sense of superiority or inferiority.  When we fall out of this loop, we are estranged.

CONSCIOUSNESS AS BELONGING TO ALL OF NATURE
My life-long study of consciousness has yielded a very different if not opposite conclusion, namely that what we experience as every  day “consciousness” is not a special attribute that belongs to us humans. It is rather proprietary to all of nature that formed us. In fact  my view goes further. It states that consciousness also makes up the essential essence of nature or  the cosmos we live in. Nothing in conventional mechanical science teaches us this proposition. In fact, we need to actually learn a different language than “matter and energy, defined mathematically” to understand this viewpoint deeply. Again words are but pointing tools and changing the language to point with changes the focus of consciousness and life. When the focus is unconventional it will of course be challenged. Yet  I stand firm in my conviction that, really and truly, atoms and sub-atomic particles do not represent the essence of nature (rather they represent the cultural-ideology of a math-based view of nature) and that instead consciousness lies at the very core of our world and of ourselves.

DIFFERENT THAN THE DOMINANT WESTERN VISION
Naturally this stance puts me at odds with chemistry and physics, the mathematical and the systematically mechanical viewpoint. We have been culturally convinced that the latter holds the key to the ” really true”  unifying laws or objective principles of nature.

My experience tells me otherwise, and definitively.

THE SHELL OF THE TORTOISE
What I know of nature is symbolized by a tortoise and its shell.

This is a metaphor for the difference between the surface appearance of nature (like that of a hard shell) and its depths.  The shell exhibits not hardness and relative lifelessness. Separate from the turtle, it cannot function other than mechanically. Imagine that the depth of nature work  exactly on the opposite principles. The flesh of the turtle is soft. It is consciousness, not mechanical. It is self-moving. It does not stay fixed, unmoving or dead. If you try to transplant the principles of the shell, of the surface, to the depths, what happens? If we inject into the turtle’s blood vessels only the hard shell’s minerals, the turtle will die.

In my opinion, western civilization is on a like path. It has mistaken the illusion of nature’s surface mechanical appearances for the essence of all of nature and thus has begun to supplant and displace surrounding nature’s inner conscious and living depths.

If we assume all is mechanical and then try to remake everything in that image, the result will naturally be to destroy the bounty of living Eden.

HOW THIS COMES ABOUT
Imagine that “consciousness” is not something amorphous, that is without a unique identity. If we can identify that identity, we can familiarize ourselves more deeply with that consciousness, evolve a science, and then help support and nourish rather than destroy consciousness/life in nature. Let me describe this identity as best I understand it. Not to be treated lightly, this definition is the result of about a half a century of inner explorations:

Consciousness-in-nature forms a potentially universal relationship of connection.

Now when two things are glued together they connect. When we think of how this works conventionally, we think of a chemical formula for the glue. However, the glue  may be generating a strong relationship of connection on the surface bond but not necessarily in regard to deeper kind of connective consciousness. The glue is dead. It does not respond or connect to its surroundings. The glue shows no signs of alive awareness.

BADGE OF ORGANICITY
Imagine a flower with pedals that radiate outward in 360 degree directions. The radiations then also point inward to a single center to unify the whole. Now imagine that not  just a flower but most all organic life wear or display one or another surface badge of its connective essence  and organicity- at least while alive and consciousness. Afterwords they may turn to dust.  This includes  the swirls of a snail, the veins of a leaf, the radiance of our own human eye. Suppose we now work on bringing out this consciousness to sustain life, and rather than what is mechanical. We can begin by constructing a very different global view of the nature and nature’s Oneness and derivative laws. What this implies is a vision that is very different from the mathematical ideology of machine principles that currently dominates modernity – and that is taught virtually everywhere to be believed in.

WHY ARE WE HARMING NATURE’S CONSCIOUSNESS?
Obviously the mechanical view of nature, math-defined, is a not an especially consciousness-centered vision of nature. I would argue that its core principles actually stand in opposition to what is consciousness at the core of nature. Would it then be surprising that we are ubiquitously destroying life all over the planet? To understand this innate opposition, let me explain the following. Western civilization has, since the 17th century, been on a course of progressively adopting a math-based vision of nature, the mechanical whose ambassadors are physics, chemistry and biotechnology. Brought into the fold are geology, oceanography, and atmospheric sciences – all ultimately helping to reduce all of nature to mathematics or the principles of a machine.

MACHINES
Machines are distinctly “Alzheimerish”  or unconscious.  We sense this best when speaking to a telephone machine that can’t distinguish between someone saying a thing or two lovingly or in an angry voice. “May I have your credit card please?” We curse at it, and the machine can’t make it out. We also sense can get a sense of this when a bulldozer tramples over a life-form with no real consciousness, feeling or remorse. In this context, mathematics abstracts how to, with potential universality, separate all elements of consciousness. To count objects is to consider each as separate units. The three apples that make up a cup of applesauce cannot be counted as three anymore.  There are endless examples of how mathematics dominantly abstracts relationships of separation, and geometry of spatial separation. Now imagine that consciousness in its essence , and with the same potential universality, represents the opposite or what connects most deeply. Symbols are not mystical tools to discover nature with. They are just inner pointing utencils. Thus mathematics, because of the limitations of what those symbols represent, will not be able to point to consciousness in nature.

Trusting the pointing path of those symbols to blindly – which is what ideologies do -  we end up then adopting a worldview that solemnly claims “objectivity” but actually points in a bias away from the very quintessence of our world. What math symbols do point to well and design even better is machines -  things made most distinctively of separate parts – thus easily math-defined. Bottom line following this ideology of nature, we then either begin to supplant or impinge what is life  and consciousness, and with the opposite principles that really deliver and represent death in nature. We see this with chemical pollution concentrated in supertoxic waste sites that kill all of life and the proliferation of atomic weapons that can do the same.

Our sense of already knowing the core secrets of nature offers a good feeling or sense of a hubris-endowed superior knowledge that ultimately blinds us.

ENVIRONMENTAL RESCUE
Thus to  urgently rescue us from both our  inner global foolishness and our outer global environment crises we urgently need a what may be called a global mind change or paradigm shift. This means a universal shift in inner perspectives. It is the same as a central or core paradigm shift, one which redirects us from a new core to something universal. Historically there have been very few such shifts One occurred in the transition from the medieval Bible-centered to the present mechanical/ math-centered orientation of our modern times. Imagine we will make the subsequent shift, this time from th math-based view as pinnacle (Principia Naturalis Mathematica) to a consciousness/life based vision.

SPLIT-BRAIN VIEW
In a study of our split brain, this same shift can also be considered a transition from a left-to-right brain dominant view. We can shift from a dominant separative consciousness to a dominant connective consciousness. In the process we can literally reconstruct, transform and revolutionize the whole of our essential vision of the cosmos.

Toward A Global Mind Change

CAN WE MOVE TO A LIFE-CENTERED VISION OF NATURE?
Life on earth is hugely stressed with extinction rates that are climbing. Global warming is accelerating this process. Is the massive dying off of bee colonies symbolically telling us something? Looking forward to the next couple hundred years, is it possible that the overall sustainability of life on earth is threatened?  Most importantly, is our core modern worldview implicated. We form our world through the beliefs and stirrings we have inside. Is our inner guidance overall undermining life on earth? It is not easy to overcome deeply held beliefs and to move to another vision. It took at least 400 years to systematically create and apply a cultural view that upheld the belief that math symbols make up the core laws of  nature.  If we now attempt a global paradigm shift away from that view, and to what I call a  life and connective-consciousness centered vision of nature, this transition will also not be minor or immediately unfolding.

OVERCOMING SURFACE ILLUSIONS
If I have an apple in my hand and I take a knife to slice it in half, what becomes visible? Obviously two flat surfaces coming out of the interior of the apple. Exactly which surfaces come to the surface or become revealed depends on the angle of the cut with my knife. That chosen angle essentially depends on me, or the person using the knife to make the key choice where to cut. All of this is quite simple to understand. Now keep in mind this is but a metaphor for how a worldview can be created using a subjective decisive where to focus. The subjectivity then entails a self-created surface view or illusion.

PAST LEFT-BRAIN DOMINANCE & THE MATH-BASED VISION OF NATURE
Let us look more carefully at what I mean by “left-brain dominance.” Our left-hemisphere of the brain tends to separate elements of consciousness, while the right connects. Now what does that mean more precisely? In our inner world of consciousness, we separate something how? One way is by focusing on an object. We isolate it. We tunnel our vision to see it. This “cuts” the experience apart on a consciousness level. It creates what the above apple example referred to as a surface appearance but with something that is non-physical – the experience of consciousness. It may take awhile to understand this subtle kind of “cutting apart” of an inner fabric of awareness. It is the cutting apart and creation of surface appearances (illusions) within our awareness of reality. Diving into the ocean of consciousness with a predetermined focus (often defined by a personal or cultural belief, thought, or ideology) creates the equivalent of diving walls in our consciousness and similar to how physically diving into an ocean we then indeed separate the waters.

NOTHING MORE ILLUSIONARY OR SURFACE ORIENTED
The following may seem like a most stunning statement but in my view the most revered 17th century philosophers – those who promoted the dominance of a math-based vision of nature to supplant the biblical – did not really understand what they were doing. They were directing us to a vision replete with illusions and ultimately dangers to life on our planet. This is because the core math-based vision of nature, underlying physics and chemistry, principally uses mat symbols to define reality -  and they are the highest abstractions for how to separate all elements of consciousness – something that can never yield for me an objective (non-cut apart, non-surface) view in our consciousness. I know this is again an unsettling statement – the mathematical view is illusionary – but I know it from inner experience  to be absolutely and profoundly true.  This is why modern medicine, grounded in physics and chemistry from pre-med courses on, deals with mostly symptom-oriented, surface-perceived evaluation to derive treatments that fail to turnaround systemic ailments.  This is also  why our modern world is overall in trouble. Thus to make a real global paradigm shift or mind change is of critical importance.

Toward A Global Paradigm Shift

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CONTINUATION
This is a continuation of a post I made last year. Part I explains how difficult it is to make a global paradigm shift – a transformation of our core view of reality. It is more difficult than say pruning the branch of a tree (thinking here of a “branch” as a metaphor for an idea coming out of core worldview or the “trunk” ). Thomas Kuhn in his famous Structure of Scientific Revolutions did describe some paradigm shifts that we might consider branch ideas coming out, again,  the core math-based cosmic vision. This is what dominates physics and chemistry through and through. From that core presepctive, we get electro-magetic theories about nature, we get quantum mechanics, and so on. Here we do something  radical different. We cahnge the core, trunk, root and overall seed-sprouting idea!  We move onto a different tree. We change what I call a “central paradigm” – the center of a worldview upon which the whole hinges – and we opt for a  whole different worldview.

Now this second part begins with how I came to consider such a larger shift in my own thinking and inner vision.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
When I was 17 years old, my left-brain shut down after having a high fever. I became temporarily aphasic. This means I was unable to talk in whole sentences. Here was a linguist and mathematician who suddenly couldn’t do either.For more information on this, the reader can visit my more complete bio.

WHAT IS INVOLVED WITH A LEFT-BRAIN SHUT DOWN
A left-brain damaged person stops being able to sharply “separate elements of consciousness.” Now let me give the reader several arenas in which this manifests to make clearer what the phrase “separate elements of consciousness” points to. This applies especially how we orient our consciousness in spatial vision as well as the use of words. In psychological realms, it involves the development of an ego, a sense of separation and identity. The latter is a little more involves, so let me just outline the basics.

SPATIAL VISION
A left-brain damaged person may be able to draw a square as a whole connected figure like a square. This means four lines meet to form a whole square.  This is because the right brain can direct the connection of elements of consciousness and the left brain their separation. Thus black lines against a white background tend to be drawn not sharply if the left-brain is damaged. The lines may be oddly jagged or strangely crooked looking, as if drawn by someone with a shacking hand.  They are definitely not straight as an arrow, nor sharply defined or finely linear. Metaphorically, we might compare this to a dirt road with many potholes vs a straight and smooth asphalted road. Now the figure of a square is drawn as a whole figure, the four lines connect even if roughly drawn.  You can see an example of this in the book called The Right Mind by Robert Ornstein. One whose left-brain is damaged essentially loses his or her overall “cutting sharpness” of mind. A right-brain damaged person, by contrast, does the exact opposite. Again Ornstein gives pictorial examples of 4 sharply straight lines that are drawn without connecting to form a whole square. Fascinating!

VERBAL FUNCTIONS
A left-brain damaged person can become aphasic as I personally experienced. He or she will have trouble thinking, writing and speaking precisely – or with general and ordinary verbal skills. Why do verbal functions also shut down along with the ability to draw straight-as-an-arrow lines? How is this related? What role do words play in this context?

WRITTEN WORDS
Written words appear most often as black marks against white backgrounds or oppositely white on black on a chalk board.  Opposites like black and white are the extreme farthest separations of elements of consciousness in a spectrum. Opposites like black and white may be employed to make the “”sharpest distinctions” or again separations of consciousness. Anything dramatically different in our consciousness can be called separative, and in our context black and white are symbolic thereof.  The left-brain quintessentially functions in this separative modality and thus it has an affinity also to the geometry of straight lines drawn as black marks against a white background. It is really simple. The left brain consciousness, again, not only tends to live amid sharply distinguishing elements of consciousness of all kinds  – especially black marks against white backgrounds – but it also best recognizes the tiniest of separate details. Again Ornstein demonstrates this by testing his patients. A right-brain damaged persons can look at a given picture and describe in the picture the tiniest of little details but unable thereby to recognize what the whole picture is all about. The same happens to Alzheimer’s patients who can describe details of a face without recognizing the whole face, and  even of a life-long loved one.  Overall the left-brain’s consciousness gravitates to the process of  “focusing” – the tunnel vision separating of details, again  black to white contrasted marks – and not just for drawing of lines and individual  alphabetic letters. A word-filled text has separate letters to form separate words which form separate sentences, paragraphs, pages, chapters, and ultimately books. The right brain gravitates to a different way of taking in consciousness. It is a connected ocean that cannot easily be described with words.

WRITTEN WORDS WITH VOWELS
In ancient times the Greek alphabet had no vowels. In order to understand the written word, it was necessary to know the overall context. This reminds me of how the word “man” might be a noun in one context and a verb in another, as to “man a boat.” The dualities of meaning are common in ancient languages like Chinese. Once vowels, however, were added, each written word had a more specific, detailed and exacting meaning – something that thrills the left brain or makes it feel at home. Within a hundred and fifty years after adding vowels to the language, reading culturally shifted from right-to-left to left-to-right -  or from the manner in which Hebrew is read to how English is read. This change in eye movements reflected something profound, namely a brain polarity shift. Soon afterwards the Golden Age of Greece was born, including key left-brain dominant foundation ideas for our modern western world.

THOUGHT PROCESSES WITH WORDS
Words essentially start as “outline images” in our minds.  An tree is out there in the experience of our senses but the concept of a “tree” not the same as the actual tree we experience. It is only anoutline image that can help us point to many such trees. A metaphor for this is a cartoon caricature. Cartoons are drawn using outline images. Outlines involve lines. Lines are made, again, by physically drawing black against white. Before that they are consciousness separations in visual images.  These distinct caricature images have a phenomenally important use.  The concept “tree” or the concept “chair”  helps us to point or focus onto something. To focus is to separate. You get the point, and a “point” is the foundation of geometry because it is the universal symbol of spatial separation. In this terrain, what we are separating is ever and always an element of consciousness. Since left-brain awareness has a main functioning that is separative, the ability to create and use words is distinctive there of – and made more precise via exact linguistic definitions. Such skills disappear when the left-brain shuts down as I personally and painfully learned!

THE ULTIMATE KICKER & ILLUSION
When the left-brain shuts down, what one gains is a more dominant right-brain point of view. This is connective. Consciousness appears as one ocean and not as separate drops of water. The extreme opposite view is epitomized by the atomic. If the foundation building blocks of geometry are points, and for mathematics numbers, then the physical world should be similar. Thus everything is thought as being made out of something most separately distinct. In this case we are referring to the atomic view, born in ancient Greek times.

Now imagine that the latter resulting view, the math-bound and atomic, while most powerful in helping us design machines made of separate parts, is from a deeper (right-brain dominant) viewpoint “surface/separative, ultimately false and illusionary.” Illusion occurs via a breakdown of the integrity of consciousness, or when a surface appearance is  simpy mistaken for something about the depths. To make such countercultural statements and about our most revered use of mathematics in physics and chemistry begs further analysis.

MATH SYMBOLS
Math symbols are the highest or penultimate symbols for all of left-brain dominant consciousness. Saying it this way implies that our vision is eschewed and brain-side biased, rather than objective as assumed. Learning the use of math represents also the greatest of left-brain skills – why we admire the mind of an Einstein. They are really the highest, meaning the most universal or abstract symbols for the separation of all elements of consciousness and to the sharpest of distinctions. Thus something might be 2 feet long or 2.1111546 feet long, offering a finer distinction. From a right-brain point of view, however, math symbols still and even more so create and deepen what is an essentially illusionary view. I know the foregoing is for most a hugely stunning and revolutionary statement. It is virtually impossible to believe this could be true in the context of our modern culture. It would threaten the foundation of our vision of nature. Nevertheless, I know with inner certainty that this math-based vision of nature that rose to prominence in the 17th century and has remained dominant until our times,  is undeniably surface-true but depth-false to its core. This is the root reason why I believe our world is also in such trouble or why we are surrounded by a globally-polluting mess that penetrates our own being with illnesses like cancer.

Can we make a shift from what is presently a most deeply-ingrained math-based vision of nature?

This will be discussed in the next segment.

This is the third and last part of an introduction to a “global mind change” or global paradigm shift.  Part I dealt with how difficult it is to make such a shift. Part II details how this involves quintessentially a movement away from the 17th-century’s math-based vision of nature. This third segment takes us to a next step.

TRANSCENDENCE
A transcending overview here is right-brain dominant. What does that mean? Our right brain taps into what I call “connective consciousness” the way a radio might tune into a certain channel that specializes in this or that music. What is tuned into prefers to look  at connected wholes rather than separate parts. Transcendence itself is a right-brain process because it moves above (as if to a mountain peak) to look past the smaller separate views .  Then we can see consciousness again as whole. This is akin to the ocean reconnecting its waters’ separate drops or separate feeding from different rivers.

IMPLICATIONS FOR USING MATH SYMBOLS TO CONSTRUCT A WORLDVIEW
In our modern civilization we use math symbols to connect a vision of nature with. However, these symbols really abstract  how to separate all elements of consciousness. This makes the aim an impossible task.

THE MATH-ORGANIZED VIEW AS ILLUSIONARY AND MISGUIDING
As stunning as it may sound, a purely separative or math-based understanding  of all of nature, and especially nature’s depths,  is actually a vast misstep. It is both non-objective because it has a cultural agenda. It is a quite unwise way of seeing for fathoming the depths of nature.  Or it falsely constructs a global view that is actually more akin to what is surface.  Because it’s so extremely separative and surface, it is actually creates the most illusionary of all possible constructed worldviews. This seems impossible to digest because the math-based view is so unprecedentedly powerfully, and dramatically effective in designing technology. Drama, however, is exactly what creates illusions in our consciousness. Past the impressiveness of having machines and modern technology, what is the real deeper impact on the rest of our whole environment? It would take many, many pages to explain this in detail.

MONEY
It is important to note that  money, a form of everyday mathematization of consciousness, does powerfully corrupt awareness. We think we are immune from this corruption process when using this symbolism in a  laboratory to form “laws of nature.” We are not. When oversight is lacking, there is eventually a marriage between the mechanical sciences and corporate profit-drives to harm life on a global level.  Monsanto is the perfect example.

NON-JUDGMENTAL
The above is not meant to judge the essential math-bound view. It is rather to critique it as a specialized rather than the supposed way of seeing nature. It is a way well suited for designing machines. It not necessarily a best way with which to objectively interact with all of nature. Not be far. Not when it engenders the greatest of modern illusions.

BENEFITS
Machines help relieve us of mechanical chores. There have positive uses. Thus the Industrial Revolution appeared to initially be a progressive development,  as in helping the movement ot abolish slavery.

DEFICITS
Crises arose only centuries later, beginning mostly in the 20th century, when we applied this math-bound view far, far too deeply. This is because first consciousness, at the core of life, forms a universal relationship of connection in nature.  Life brings out consciousness, and consciousness brings out that life (like water brings out the same from a seed).  A universally-separative view, the mathematical, is then neither life or consciousness-centered or supportive. It eventually clashes when deeply applied because the essence of life lives deeply within.

BIGGEST DEFICIT – DEATH-DELIVERING
In other words, a falsely depth-applied mathematical view becomes predictably death-delivering and harmful on a global level.  It tends to harm life very profoundly. It will, if universally applied, undermine the overall sustainability of life on Earth – that is unless it is reigned in. We see this with chemical pollution and atomic weapons’ proliferation. This is why we so urgently need a fundamental different understanding of nature , ourselves and our cosmos. We can call this a global mind change or core paradigm shift.  Not since the 17th century has there been such a major inner shift – as from the medieval to the modern view. We now greatly need another, a similarly vast and post-modern mind shift

GLOBAL MIND CHANGE =  A HUGE BRAIN POLARITY SHIFT
Because the math-bound view is a penultimate left-brain dominant orientation, we must move away from this left-brain dominant to what is a final refuge – a highest right-brain, connective-consciousness view. Since our culture has been primarily left-brain dominant for millennia, or at least since ancient Greek times, the math-bound atomic view has deep roots. A change thereof will take time.  Threatening health pandemics and environmental challenges can acceleate this change. Thus we have an unprecedented opportunity to become next-step more enlightened, to shift away from the present global eco-destructiveness to what will deeper than ever in the past, support, maintain, nurture and promote  life on earth (rather than what is mechanical).

Toward A Global Paradigm Shift

WHAT IS A GLOBAL MIND CHANGE?
I became familiar with the term “global mind change” only after having read Willis Harman’s fabulous book by that name. His work very greatly impressed me. I even traveled to an IONS convention (he was head of IONS at the time) to meet with him and share ideas.

HISTORY OF GLOBAL MIND CHANGES
A global-in-scope mind change is very rare in the world’s cultural history. Back in the 17th century western civilization went through such a unique and rare event – a global inner transformation.  It shifted from the Bible-centered to the core math-centered vision of nature  for the understanding of all of our cosmos. This led to a vast reorganization of many if not most major branches  of human knowledge. This is also what is meant by a global-in-scope mind change that transforms our everyday lives deeply. The Renaissance shift led to a transition from the medieval to the modern industrial world. The understanding gathered through applications of math-based understandings in the fields of mechanics, allopathic medicine, chemistry and physics led the way. Math symbols are extremely abstract inner tools and so they were capable of  leading us into such a vast mind-transformation.

ANOTHER GLOBAL MIND CHANGE ON THE HORIZON?
As our modern world is increasingly challenged by crises such as global warming, global chemical pollution and world-wide health pandemics like cancer, solutions also need to be global in scope. I thus have a series of blog post scheduled that are entitled Global Paradigm Shift – Parts I, II, and III and which outline a little of how we can now globally shift again from the centrality of the mathematical orientation to a more deeply penetrating life and consciousness centered vision of nature. This is also outlined in other articles at our raw-wisdom website.

TRANSFORM OUR MINDS AND CONSCIOUSNESS FIRST
In my life experience – spanning over half a century - I have noticed how the most ardent and committed environmentalists have been educated in the very same modern worldview as their opponents.  Thus a person may have a deep spiritual path, like Buddhism, and which teaches a meditative emptying of minds to past  illusions. However, at another level, they still subconsciously buy-in to the dominance of the modern vision, again the math-based, “advanced scientific,” atomic modern worldview. We have been taught this is objective scientific truth about the outer world. This is taught to us in earliest impressionable childhood. Things in nature are thus just so many chemicals put together mechanically

AN APPLE
With this in mind, and for example, a simple apple is supposedly, objectively and scientifically made up of about 90% carbohydrates, proteins, fats, sugars and calories (CPFSC). There are also trace mineral elements, vitamins and phytonutrients therein.  Please not these  are all chemically-defined concepts. They all hinge on the same underlying atomic view of nature. We are told we must see things this way. It is a gospel to calculate our measured ingesting of these CPFSCs or chemically-defined ingredients. Then we can follow this or that diet at will,  tweaking the relative percentages and interactions of these chemical elements. This is what virtually every and all nutritionists, dietitians, naturopaths and allopaths – together and as one – tell us, and in a well-meaning way.

THE ILUSION OF TRUTH
When there is such total and complete unanimity, the appearance is one of having rock-solid, reliable, peer-reviewed, objective knowledge rather than a culturally-subjective and ingrained view.

ANOTHER WAY TO UNDERSTAND
It is, however, possible to re-understand our foods using what I consider a much better-guiding, more healing and quite different, almost opposite model.  Our foods can be said to be whole or  processed (heated, chemicallized and cut apart) living or dead, organic or genetically modified. They have certain other key features which are significant in a totally different worldview. A chemical assay tends not to focus on these other aspects. Everything hinges on the worldview’s bias or ideology.  Not that we can’t retool our chemical model to become useful. It is just that, in my view, this doesn’t get to the deeper more important core issues. This is why our culture is suffering from what David Wolfe calls a “nutritional holocaust” and which, in turn, relates to growing epidemics of chronic diseases. The conventional model, in my understanding, stands in the way. It’s conventional use makes it harder to see through our deepest illusions to heal ourselves. It reinforces, first and foremost, the root mechanical vision of nature. This is what, at the deepest core level, is misguiding us to destroy our planet. Do we really want to feed this fire? Or should we look for some water to put the fire out?

THE ROOT PROBLEM
Imagine that ultimately the mechanical model of nature is the most culpable spiritual problem of our times. we need far more an inner transformation of our own core consciousness. How can we turnaround our environmental crises by  looking for causes “out there” or pointing fingers at others, when

Outer environmental pollution will not magically stop until our inner world detoxes first.

BRAIN POLARITY SHIFT
The above involves the same as a “brain polarity shift.” It is a moving from a left-brain dominant to a right-brain dominant view. It is a shifting from a separative, math-bound and atomic or material view. The shift is towards seeing of an underlying connected ocean-of-consciousness. The resulting vision is also consciousness and life-centered. This blog offers guidance toward such a shift. We also provide links to many articles and videos on the subject of raw-wisdom.

When we truly empty ourselves of surface illusions (ills of consciousness) we begin to detox the outer world around us. Again as we heal the depths within, we become shining stars and magnetic attractors for the change we want to see everywhere in our world.

STARTING WITH A CORE MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE

If we are serious about reversing some of the main ills of our world, such as environmental pollution and the vast growth in chronic health pandemics, we need to go within for root causes or what needs to be healed

CORE CONSCIOUSNESS
To detox and heal our core inner consciousness, however, we obviously need to know more about what that “consciousness” is. Trans-personally, I’ve defined “consciousness” several times in this blog as the  potentially universal relationship of connection in all of nature. More profoundly it produces what we experience as “life “and it also it holds that life together. We are through the presence of inner consciousness kept whole, alive, and healed. When there is a wound, consciousness travels there in order to heal, to mend it. However, when we violate this connecting consciousness, as in surgically cutting apart our bodies, life is impinged. If we cut a living organism apart systematically it dies.

GOING PAST THE MODERN WORLD VIEW
Our modern vision of nature is centrally math-dominated and defined. Chemistry represents one major branch of this dominance. The philosophy of chemistry also began to be globally applied to nature via the introduction of endless modern industrial, health, cosmetic, cleaning and agricultural products. This trend first accelerated  in the middle of the 20th and this was thus the time when our environmental problems began to surface. What, pray tell, does one thing have to do with the other – a math-dominated vision of nature with our environmental problems? Mathematics represents the very highest or most universal set of symbols ever used to help separate all elements of consciousness, and with precision to infinite smallness. Since consciousness, however, is defined here as the “potentially universal relationship of connection in nature” – and which also brings out, maintains and returns us to life,  a universally separative view is then, by definition, anathema and in opposition to life. In other words, it really involve the polar opposite or the penultimate representative of a death-centered vision of nature. Since visions are working models and not just ideas, they are used to organize our way of living in this world. It then becomes predictable that we increasingly surround ourselves with enveloping toxicity or pollution, denatured environments and wholesale extinctions of life. A universally separative view is hugely wise. It will eventually undermine consciousness with or without being fatal, as when someone takes multiple chemical drugs to make that  person almost dead – or walk the halls of a nursing home like a zombie

COMPOST HEAP POLLUTION
Also when a very large and entirely random mix of chemicals is thrown into a compost heap that supports plant life, this can test the essence of math-designed products in our soils, and by implication, perhaps the underlying worldview. Intentionally we do not test the effects of one or another chemical in laboratory isolation but rather in a medium where life interconnects. There we look at the whole impact. What happens? Plant life that seeks nourishment from the heap now dies. It happens every time in super toxic waste sites. This kind of pollution applies also to water, air, and virtually all other surroundings. The significance is denied. The focus instead is on isolates for profit or separative, lower consciousness.  It is not easy to go past some of our very deepest cultural paradigm illusions. When we do, we transform our inner mind and consciousness.

Can we define what is Enlightenment? Is there is clear path to such enlightenment or does it just happen instantaneously? Can there be a whole Age of Enlightenment and are we living in one?

AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
We supposedly had such an Age of Enlightenment. What historians call the  “Enlightenment Period” traces back to 17th and 18th century Europe. This also overlaps with the Renaissance or again the so-called “rebirth of civilization.”  It is in this era that philosophers and thinkers began to introduce certain key ideas underlying our modern world.

SHOULD WE QUESTION THE HISTORICAL ACCOUNT?
Was their thinking really all that wise, spiritual and enlightened? Did their cultural  influence and impact leave behind a truly enlightened way of thinking, higher reasoning and wisdom? Did their literature offer a lasting guide to becoming more deeply enlightened and wise?

We can review the writings of the luminaries of that era, of Leibniz, Voltaire, Kant, Berkeley, Hobbes and Hume, or Galileo, Descartes, and Newton among others, and one common thread was a sense of excitement. A new worldview had just been born that would supposedly free humanity from the shackles of the medieval era.  What really transpired as a result?  The Industrial Revolution was born.

A COUNTER-CULTURAL VIEW
I have a counter-cultural view of their guidance being not all that enlightening. The 17th century introduced most importantly a universal math-based vision of nature, the mechanical. This formed the inner ideological foundation for the Industrial Revolution. This best guides us to bringing out the mechanical nature of nature, including via the invention of machines. But does this really connect us with the true depth essence of either nature or our core human consciousness? Enlightenment somehow involves a raising of our consciousness to a higher light.

WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
This brings up the underlying question: what is consciousness? My view is that  it forms the potentially universal relationship of connection in nature. If this is true, then the divine gift of consciousness that living things have is what really connect us to each other and also to all things around us. When an Alzheimer’s patient cannot connect one memory to another, or connect the visual image of a face – even of a familiar loved one -  there is an extreme breakdown of consciousness. Thus most importantly, imagine that consciousness is what connects us not only physically and externally but also within. Therefore without that inner consciousness, we would not only not be alive but would start to disconnect at all levels – mentally, emotionally, and spiritually – including with our bodies falling asunder and eventually turning to dust. Again if this view is true, it brings up a very curious dilemma.

THE REVERED SYMBOLS OF MATHEMATICS
Symbols are but pointing tools and the symbols of mathematics point us most powerfully to relationships of separation. To count, adding and subtracting, is to see things separately that are so counted.To divide is very obviously to separate something mentally into parts. To multiply is just a reversal of the same.

A CONFLICT AND BIAS
So if consciousness is again the potentially universal relationship of connection (potential because there is unconsciousness in the world as well) then guess what? The symbols of mathematics and the resulting worldview point us diametrically and directly away from the same – what is consciousness and life in nature! This forms a worldview bias rather than an objective orientation.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS?
When we lose consciousness, it is as if the light within is turned off. We become de-enlightened. Darkness looms  within as if a shadow-creating cloud travelled over our heads. The world of a dementia patient is not enlightened. What all of the above ultimately means is that armed with this modern worldview, the mathematical, which the 17th century heralded as the new light for our world,, we can very easily elicit what is really not enlightening, principles of death in nature.

EVER WONDER
Ever wonder why we live in an age filled to the brim with unprecedented species deaths? Why is the atomic bomb the invention of high-order mathematics? Or why do we live in an “enlightened” age filled also with unprecedented health pandemics, like  diabetes. Diabetes is evidenced by a growing cellular and body unconsciousness or neuropathy. Ever wonder why we have a growing epidemic of Alzheimer’s diseases where again the connectedness of the mind falls apart? As explained in the philosophy of raw-wisdom, there is a deep reason which we critically need to know if we are to become truly enlightened.

CONTINUATION
This is a continuation of an earlier post about seeing a life-centered vision of nature through a right-brain dominant way of seeing. We have a literally split right and a left hemisphere and they tend to see reality differently (unless brought together in a whole brain view). This corresponds to two forms of consciousness that may be united or posed at odds.

TWO ROOT FORMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Bertram Russell once offered two metaphors for understanding out universe  – a pail of molasses and a pail of sand. This is reminiscent of the choice between a particle and  a wave theory in quantum physics. Which view, the separative or connective, the pail of sand or that of molasses,  is the  best or the more objective?

CONNECTIVELY DOMINANT
There is no really black and white answer. What I’ve discovered is that the surface/separative appearance of nature is best left-brain described and dealt with. The depth-essence of nature is fathomed with the opposite approach.  Raw-wisdom moves only to our awareness becoming more connectively dominant, with the separative view remaining essential but subservient. What all this means becomes clear in the application to the healing arts that bring out life and consciousness from what appears to have little.

RAW VIEW
The right-brain dominant view may also be called the  “raw” view or what is concept-naked.  This is similar to Buddhism’s emptying our minds to raise consciousness of the oneness in meditations. There is also a second usage of the term “raw” as discussed below.

ROLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Let me first say that the single greatest discovery in my whole and entire life, without exaggeration, has been the central understanding that what is  “consciousness”  taps  into a universal relationship of connection in nature, and thus forms nature’s core essence and depth laws.  Universal connection equates with Oneness and thus consciousness also is the foundation of nature’s interconnected view as a whole.

PAIL OF MOLASSES
This is the” molasses view” in contrast to the “pail of sand view” that offers mechanical, atomistic laws for the surface/separative/illusionary appearance view. This overall and right/left brain understanding has a thousand and one implications and powerful applications. The “pail of molasses view” differs fundamentally from the atomic or mathematical view of  physics and chemistry again representing the pail of sand perspective. The latter is usually the sole “true” vision we have all been brought up to believe in – except for some traces of religious mysticism.

WHAT WE ARE TAUGHT
In our impressionable years attending primary and high schools, we take in this left-brain-eschewed and authoritative way of seeing reality. We are taught to buy-into an only superficially true and depth false view. Because mathematics represents a “universal symbolism for the separation of all forms of consciousness,” it actually makes no logical sense to apply this view to the depth connections of nature (which are consciousness-based) We want to mostly connect not separate ourselves from an understanding of  the whole fabric.  Applying the Newtonian vision, we’ve instead put ourselves in a either passively separated or actively clashing stance.

RAW LIFE WISDOM
Because the concentrated presence of consciousness forms life, this bringing out of life and consciousness (especially in the healing arts) is not the same as the bringing out of the mechanical using physics and chemistry. Here we can note that the term “raw” is thus further associated with bringing out what is life and consciousness in ourselves, including by engaging the foods we eat. We thus recommend to others to follow a living foods diet. There is a profound reason to water our seeds (water elicits life and consciousness)  or to not cook our foods (fire elicits the destruction of life).

RAISING CONNECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
Ultimately the healing of our disintegrated visions, the greening of our mind, is what leads us consistently to a healing change in lifestyles. This offers to raise our connective consciousness and is what raw life wisdom is all about.

TOWARD A GLOBAL PARADIGM SHIFT

What can help bring about a global paradigm shift – a core inner change to heal our world – is allowing the huge crises of our times to penetrate us within –or not to block the feeling of pain on an emotional, and spiritual level. Pain, for me, is the greatest messenger of healing so I have never taken pain killers to block their message. Consciousness is the force of connective in ourselves and thus rushes to the site of a hurt, a cut, a separation,  in order to help heal or make whole again. Thus we need to welcome the pains of our greatest crises and allow them to penetrate within  – especially the ones, like global pollution, species extinctions, the death and destruction toll of wars, cancer and diabetes pandemics,  atomic weapons proliferation and so on and so forth, or what may effect us  personally the most, is life-threatening or whose impact really touches us to our core – if we allow that penetration.

TWENTIETH CENTURY IMPACT OF THE NAZI ERA
The first few years of my life I grew up in Germany, right after World War II. I still remember the sight of burnt out buildings. What made the greatest impression was the pain that my parents, and their close family and friends, had endured during the war. My mother was also in Siberia, where she said the “roads were paved in blood.” My step-dad, Gabriel, was in more than half a dozen concentration camps. My aunt Helen was was injected with typhoid as part of a Nazi medical experiment, and lost an eye from the infection that followed. All of this made me very deeply wish to gain a greater sense of the world we live in.

OPPORTUNITIES TO THINK AND FEEL DEEPER
All forms of deep suffering again can be approached most positively as vast opportunities to grow and heal within.

CANCER
For example, when a person has cancer, they may not realize that they are also facing a huge opportunity to learn from their out-of-touch-with-nature lifestyle mistakes. it is a wake-up call. However, they may not see this as an opportunity at all, falling into a state of intense fear that is also fed by a profiteering medical system. They may then fail to take any personal responsibility for their present state  – considering it a matter of bad luck to have cancer. Instead of correcting lifestyle missteps, they would rather hand themselves over to a doctor to kill and destroy the foreign invader, the disease entity separated from oneself, and using the very same chemicals that actually cause cancer. This is pretty insane but then we live in an insane society. As a result, the cancer may or may not be arrested. The learning opportunity, however, definitely is arrested, stymied and missed.  This is why I am such a strong advocate of going the natural cancer treatment route and learning all one can about it.  This includes multiple forms of detoxification (getting the synthetic chemicals out) and via saunas, colonics, alkaline hydration, and much more. We have on our site a great film called Crazy Sexy Cancer which is  about one young person’s immense journey through such a process of growth and enlightenment in facing cancer.

CONVERGING AND PENETRATING CRISES
There are presently many different health, social and environmental crises that can not only penetrate our thick cultural defenses but that are converging together in our modern times. They are all great learning opportunities to help redirect us in more healing paths.

GLOBAL PARADIGM SHIFT
When their combined effects are allowed to penetrate us, they can trigger the most important wave of healing, that of a making more connective, conscious and healing change of our core worldview. It is itself ill. Thus I have advocated in my raw-wisdom articles a path of such a deepest healing begins with a spiritual or inner shift from the current mechanical, death-centered, math-constructed vision of nature to one that is life and consciousness center and thus can help us evolve and heal the most.

WHERE SHALL WE BEGIN TO DETOX OUR WORLD?
Ever since Rachel Carson published her classic Silent Spring, the amount of environmental pollution in our air, water, soil and ultimately the cells of living organisms has continued to skyrocket. If trends continue, life on earth may not be sustainable. All of this has continued to occur despite the growth of a vibrant environmental movement which Carson initially triggered in the 1960’s.  Some logical questions then arise,  such as why past approaches have fallen short and why we have not come up with new strategies that do work to stem the tide of vast environmental pollution?

POINT TO OTHERS: PROBLEMS ARE OUT THERE
I have often seen environmentalist point fingers at certain  corporate or political “villains” who are supposedly responsible for the larger part of our environmental crises. In other words, they see the problem as out there and certainly outside of themselves. If only we could get the corrupt politicians and executives to change their ways we would all be much better off.  If only we could alter the messages of the major corporate media, our world would soon transform. If only we could change the ownership of the means of production, our society would more gloriously progress for the benefit of the disadvantaged.

POINT TO SELF: PROBLEMS DEEP INSIDE
Here we stop pointing fingers and look instead within. We take personal responsibility and in waves. This means we start detoxing from our innermost core within and then go outward to radiate in all directions towards ever larger circles of influence. This blog and our website raw-wisdom.com outlines the first such wave – changing our core vision and orientation to nature as a whole, to our cosmos.  As long as we all ourselves have not made this innermost shift, the outer world will continue its present non-sustainable course.

INTRODUCING A

 GLOBAL MIND CHANGE

I used to host a global mind change discussion group for a New York City Noetic Science group, so this is a topic I love to write about. It was inspired by a book by Willis Harman entitled Global Mind Change. It has two alternative subtitles. The Promise of the Twenty-First Century and The New Age Revolution in the Way We Think. Both subtitles are appropriate but I have a vision a bit different about Global Mind Change than the late Willis Harman’s.  I once confronted him with it, and he didn’t quite catch on. Maybe if I had more private time with him as it was just a passing meeting. Global Mind Change involves some changes in the universal ways we view all of experience, all of life, all of nature and all of our consciousness thereof.

CAN WE MOVE TO A LIFE-CENTERED VISION OF NATURE?

The core of my view is a shift from the mechanical to a life-centered view of nature. Can we make this shift happen. I would say yes, but it will take time, patience and deep understanding.  We have to overcome the molding of the past. It took at least 400 years to systematically create a cultural view that supposedly our exploration of math symbols and where they point unveils  the core laws of  nature.  If we now attempt a global mind change, we can move away from this 17th century view and toward what I see as  a more depth-true or integral life-centered vision. This transition is not minor and may need centuries to unfold. Only great sufferings migh speed up the process.

OVERCOMING SURFACE ILLUSIONS

If I have an apple in my hand and I take a knife to slice it in half, what then becomes visible? Obviously two flat surfaces coming out of the interior of the apple. Which surfaces are revealed depends on the angle of the cut. That angle also depends on me making the choice where to cut. All of this is simple to understand as a metaphor for explaining why a view of nature as surface, superficial, self-created.

PAST LEFT-BRAIN DOMINANCE & THE MATH-BASED VISION OF NATURE

Let us look more carefully at what I call “left-brain dominance.” The left-brain separates, the right connects. In the inner world of consciousness we separate something apart by focusing on it. This “cuts” (like a knife cuts an apple) the experience of reality apart and in the process creates the same kind of momentary surface appearance.  It may take awhile to observe this subtle kind of “cutting apart” of consciousness because it is not something hard, solid or physical to track. It is the cutting apart and creation of surface appearances (illusions or maya) within our consciousness.  Nothing is actually more illusionary than the core math-based vision of nature because mathematics expresses the highest abstractions for how to separate all elements of consciousness – something that can never arrive at an objective (non-subjectively cut apart) view!

I know this is a stunning statement but it is actually true.  This is why our modern world is so deeply in trouble. Thus to make a global mind change we have to challenge some highly deep (actually foundation) beliefs that we”ve been told are unchallengeable – again the core math-grounded view of physics and chemistry being supposedly objective. It is not. For more on this see my other articles on the alternative to the mathematical or “raw-wisdom” or a right-brain-dominant  or “connective-consciousness” view of all of nature.