Ordinary Human Advices

In all this high-flown study of aware will and the mechanisms used by Consciousness to create their world, it is healthy once in a while to come back to the ordinarily human. Are there guidelines for the simply human life worth holding on to through all the phases and turbulences to which any life is subject? The following are suggested as possible touchstones to incorporate into your architecture:

Communicate about your values. Talk about the use and benefit of:
• honesty,
• courage,
• belief in service
• faith in the universe
• hope for the future
• intentional enthusiasm
• love as a basis for strength in action with those you love, those you depend on, those you’re near to and those you trust.

Seek opportunity and use it. Initiative and resourcefulness follow in the wake of the desire to find and use opportunity to create new and better paths.

Seek positive information. Good news is there on every hand for he who is inclined to sort it out from the noise. So is bad news. Positive information is that information which supports positive action. Reach beyond your own sphere and intentionally help someone complete something incomplete or attain something difficult. The belief that nothing matters or can make a difference, the belief in overwhelming dangers when none are presently visible, and the apathetic sense of non-action are dangerous commodities in the markets of human exchange. Those who sell chaos, apathy, and indifference are the drug-[peddlers of the heart.

Drop negative information. Negative attitudes and negative, or threatening communication is for the most part best handled by dropping it right now, cutting the line and declining to invest it with any effort or response. This does not mean hiding from facts. The vast majority of information involves partial facts mixed with opinions or hidden intentions or evaluation biased toward one path or another. When the bias and the intention and the evaluation of information is oriented toward stopping, reducing, lessening, squashing, impoverishing or in any way de-energizing you, drop the phone right there.

Choose core beliefs based on your values. We surprisingly often reduce large areas of thought down to simple summary statements such as our favorite clichés and saws: When in doubt, communicate, or Thinking makes it so. These condensed policy statements for the world are often what we live by. Choose ones you like. Build decisions on the beliefs you have consciously chosen because of your values.

Build the future one day at a time. Do this step now. Rome, the Pyramids and the great fortunes of the world were built taking one step - this one - and actually doing it. If you cannot do it all, and it all must be done, do one thing fully now.

Seek to lead a good life. Simply intending to live a life based on greater values than simply cash-flow will make a difference. A life of comfort is not the same as a good life.

Knowing what you need to do, knowing who you are, you can begin the life-shaping task of deciding to lead a good life. A good life means a life lead by a good person, producing more good int he world than harm.

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Search for Truth Canceled

The world’s most senior body of consciousness law-makers have announced today that the search for truth has been canceled world-wide.

In its place, says chairman Lao “Plato” Lee, Chairman of the Consciousness Steering Committee, a more pro-active, sensitive, urgent quest has been named for those inclined to seek beyond the ordinary agreement shells of their mercantile brethren.

“We must give up the Search for Truth. So be it. But in its place, we must demand a wide spread search for better understanding. “

Lee asserted this change was based on heuristic observation that since the only truth there is is the Knower of truth that is within each of us, seeking for truth has degenerated into a sort of spiritual mirror-gazing which diverts, tantalizes and reoccupies the seeker and actually renders him less capable. “Searching for Truth is searching for oneself. And it’s not a project that should take very long, since one need only notice where the desire to find truth lies and one is shaking hands with Truth at that point,.” Lee explained.

Grades In Space

It is awkward to make the transition in understanding of Space. Like responsibility itself, it requires a shift from “This is done to me” to “I can manage what happens” to “I create”. In spatial terms the lowest awareness band, which is found in catatonic solid cases, is “All is a black clump” or the beautiful catastrophe of solid chaos.

As one painfully finds his way through the treacherous bogs of injustice, irresponsibility, enforced reality, undesired communication, and into the higher ground of more rational, and more free, perception, a transition occurs in his or her perception of space. From a black frame filled with mysterious impulses, it gradually assumes three dimensions.

In this perspective of space, false realities and their dark mysteries give way to a clarity and solidity on agreed-upon spaces with solid things of bright colors. Flows are sent back and forth, objects move in recognizable patterns, and if you keep your oil changed, your engine keeps running as it should. Phone calls get logged and checking accounts get balanced and it is all fairly clear, as long as no-one springs open any of the darker wellsprings of tainted awareness that sometimes threaten. Of course the ability to operate normally while holding those dark doors closed is one of the signs of normalcy - the noise stays at bay. One is able to communicate relatively consistently regardless of the potential recreations of chaos which are hidden just below the orchestra pit.

This is a space of energies and flowing streams of things shifting in time and place within acceptable parameters. It is possible to achieve a state of clarity of mind wherein these objects flow more easily, energy is more tolerable, and things seem bright and comfortably real. This is a state of cheerful and energetic extroversion, the above-average human who is alert and aware and in good tune.

Managing an even greater sense of individual breadth and clarity space itself becomes a transparent creation, much like a directors view of a stage-set. Yes, it is an illusion; but having intended it into existence in the first place one can suspend that knowledge to enjoy the creation made feasible by it. Spheres of one or another kind of belief or awareness or intention can be postulated into space because it is one’s own space, not borrowed from the fetid war-chest of the material universe temporarily.

When space is addressed consistently from this level you find somewhat magical things happening - the manifestation of will seems to occur beyond the scope of your immediately traceable influence, and your life takes on a charmed flavor.. It is actually your ability to know by an act of will that has grown. But space itself may very well be nothing more than a by-product of that ability, which dwells in the core being of each of us.

A long, long time ago (1994) a series of essays was posted to the web at a site called The Conscious Explorer. They were raw, often unpolished, direct analyses of various facets of the interface between consciousness and the various vectors in play in the human-occupied physical terrain of existence.

I have been asked many times for further material along this vein, and have finally found some time to respond to those requests.

This Blog will be updated at random intervals with essays extending the original work found in the Conscious Explorer. No guarantees are offered, except that I will offer the best writing on the subject I can come up with, discounting typos.

Comments are welcome by e-mail.

Thanks for your attention!

Amos

These essays are copyrighted (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 by Amos H. Jessup. They may be republished with permission, or excerpted for discussion or educational purposes only.