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From my website, RadicalConsciousness.net:

"The nature of Homo sapiens' consciousness
They voted to kill Jesus and free a thief . They stoned Buddha out of India. Disgruntled perhaps, they vote for their next cannabal king. Hardly awake, dreaming the hypnotic suggestions of society, made dumb and dependent, deprived of discernment, they live a contrived and deadly fiction they believe is real; a sophisticated slavery. Corporate interests, with government collusion, are the economic terrorists sucking economic blood in the form of utilities, transportation, medical and food monies, etc., etc., just enough to keep citizen victims alive to support their primitative consciousness. All the great spiritual traditions, at the radical core, say WAKE UP!"
 

To "wake up" relates to what Goethe said: "...to die and become. Till thou hast learned this, thou art but a dull guest on this dark planet."

Radi

 From my website: http://RadicalConsciousness.net

Radical Consciousness 
by M. F. TAYLOR

From the Introduction:

        The basic premise is that Homo sapiens are an antiquated species. They have established a base upon the planet earth, being the best killers, while developing their minds as self-conscious creatures. This process has served its purpose and is now fast becoming a retarded operation. Homo sapiens represent the adolescence of the human being. It is still a species that postures for identity and power. It still is motivated by fear, the base of its operations. Defense is its structural pose upon which its identity is grounded. The very structure of the self is maintained by "defense mechanisms."  All this creates a limited and constricted consciousness; energy which is repressed and wasted, but waiting to emerge in a more creative being. The creative release of this energy requires a new form to contain and mold. This is Homo novus, a consciousness that has greater access to an awareness beyond the mental-conceptual restric-tion that defines Homo sapiens.

        The following essays expose the limitation and constriction of Homo sapiens' consciousness within personal, social, and political realms as well as to suggest the solution, which is transcendence. Transcendence is the mutation from Homo sapiens to Homo novus, a new being. This is a shift in consciousness from the fused and embedded constriction of the "mental-self," the self-conscious constriction, to wider more inclusive and Aware realms. The shift is not simply an intellectual understanding, but an actual vertical step of consciousness beyond the mental or intellectual, and into the heart and spaciousness of a higher consciousness.

        From a developmental point of view, this shift is a mutation and not a variation of species. The shift does not create a better person or society, but a new society. The shift includes the lower level developments of the mind and intellect but begins to incorporate what the lower mind tends to exclude (Wholeness, intuition, Love, and much more).

        In order for this shift to take place, whether in individual or society, observation of the constricted behavior, with a Seeing and Hearing Awareness, needs to begin. The essays enclosed are a kind of observation from this perspective.

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COMMENTARY:

The still point waits for you. 


        

What is the Stillpoint?

I take the name from T. S Eliot's Four Quartets, which runs through the four movements of poetry as the central point, the intersection between time and the timeless, the point of enlightenment, of re-birth, of transcendence, of the born again understanding running through literature and history, in spirituality, philosophy, and of the many Realizers who Know the place for the first time. Do you know the still point? That is your destiny.

"At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from not towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement
      from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance."

---from The Four Quartets, Burnt Norton; T. S. Eliot