Thursday, July 8, 2010

ASTROBIORHYTHM

A reader here, responding to a blog essay, advertises for Astrology on a website. Astrology still has a popular following, while many do not take it seriously as it was many hundreds of years ago. Yet, there is something within us that still responds to some connection with the stars and planets, after all, we are composed of all that.

However, in keeping with this blog and the recognition of a more emergent advanced consciousness (Homo novus), the use of Astrology is as antiquated as Homo sapiens. The stars, as such, have less value, psychologically, or in terms of consciousness, as yesterday’s newspaper in terms of gravitational effect.

Now, biorhythms may be a different story. For millions of years we evolved from a set of tidal variations created by the Earth, moon, sun, system and we have many of these cycles within us. There are seven major tidal variations on earth that theoretically are now within us, influencing physical, emotional, mental, affinity, aesthetic, self-awareness, and spiritual dispositions in a cyclic sense. These represent seven major levels of consciousness, developed along the evolutionary path, that exist in Homo sapiens as subtle, periodically changing sources of energy and information.

I’ve developed Biorhythm into a comprehensive theory of seven cycles (23, 28, 33, 38, 43, 48, and 53 day cycles), based upon tidal variations related to one’s day of birth (where the cycles are set at this “still point”). But these subtle variations are mostly too subtle for Homo sapiens who are still too unconscious and undeveloped in their awareness, except perhaps for the first three cycles of physical, emotional, and mental development.

Nevertheless, I also created a computer program (AstroBiorhythm), for example, for all seven cycles, based upon day of birth. The computer output or Advanced Interpretation for the Spiritual Cycle may read: “Spiritual Cycle (low): self may be submerged in a dark night of spiritual despair. Its nothingness is evident without redeeming nature of Spirit as a Presence. Witness-level consciousness may help navigate in this phase.”

Well, of course, most Homo sapiens, hardly advanced beyond their conditioned cultural programs, would not have a clue what the above is about, unless having entered their beings more deeply, usually on some path toward a higher consciousness.

That said, a Seven Cycle Biorhythm theory and metaphysics of this sort would seem far more relevant and closer to “home” than an antiquated, popularized Astrology.

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Monday, October 19, 2009

The Beautiful

Thought I’d tackle the subject of Beauty (in which Truth and Goodness are related), to say something about its integral relationship to the evolution of humankind and to Spiritual Healthcare. The first supposition is that the beautiful is at the core, an intrinsic value of human beings, discovered and expressed in all spheres: the personal, cultural, scientific, societal spheres of development. It is a value and a value that is dynamic, alive like an energy within. It is something we discover that is expressed and appreciated. It is something related to a universal unity and harmony found in nature and art, and in ourselves with the feeling of an emotional pleasure in the unity of being. Whitehead said: “beauty is the final contentment of the Eros of the universe.” A touch of Beauty is consciousness seeking its Source of Perfection in all things. Beauty is the attractor of human evolution, a come hither, in the domains of nature, self, an culture as we evolve.

A touch of Beauty is as an intrinsic value ingredient integral to evolution. Its recognition is integral to Spiritual Healthcare. Characteristic of evolving organisms is an evolving complexity not only from within but from without, and this complexity means more parts to be integrated into a whole to maintain an integrity, a harmony and unity of being in terms of person, or a unity of relations in culture or society; or in the scientific arena, where theory and discovery have greater and greater powers of unification (beauty) such as E = mc^2.

So then if we admit that beauty is not just something to appreciate, but to acknowledge as integral within us, something that wants expression toward a unity of being in all spheres of relation, personal and cultural, then that very recognition itself is a kind of Spiritual Healthcare, personal and social. And where we don’t have it, then is a kind of Spiritual dis-ease, a disease that cries out for attention in the pain of disunity, an attention that seeks for greater unity and integration, a Spiritual healing.

Now to return to Jesus dying on the cross within this concept of beauty offered as integral to evolution, and in particular, to the evolution of consciousness and being, we might see his death and resurrection as a universal process of evolution, that which moves toward a greater unity of being. This involves a kind of death of the old and resurrection of the new a new unity of being (Love in the case of Jesus) which is true of any genuine or universal process of change on the path toward the perfection of the Beautiful. Thus in both spheres, the personal or collective, the symbolism of Jesus on the cross can signify or point (beyond the Christian dogma) towards a process of refinement within and without as that movement toward a greater unity of being. If we recognize this process within, that too is a function of Spiritual Healthcare.

In order for there to be pure art, pure freedom of being is necessary, otherwise there is a distortion in the doing, resulting in something less than pure in the attempted Beauty of the art. Thus ultimately, in terms of consciousness and a Spiritual Healthcare directive: Pure Art = Freedom of Being =

Finding
Formless Identity
Is to become the
Radiance of
All Things
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Monday, December 1, 2008

 

Radical Consciousness 
by M. F. TAYLOR

C H A P T E R   2

ACT OF AWARENESS

       AWARENESS is beyond the powers or understanding of therapy and religion. Conventional therapy and religion are only the projections of social constriction. And social constrictions represent the perceptions of the constricted “you.”

        In the medical profession, it has long been known that healing is not something doctors know much about. Doctors assist the healing process but do not know what it is. In the area of self-psychology, and transpersonal psychology, there is even more recognition given to “deeper” “hidden” processes or to a “Secret Self.”  There are many hundreds of ads in magazines that describe methods of personal transformation; ad after ad that alludes to Awareness in many forms. Sometimes It is called “energetic core,” “loving energy source,” “core essence,” “spiritual  heart,” “essential self,” and so on. The whole point is to learn how to contact this inner “Source,” to become more balanced, less depressed, more focused, and  more alive: There is a magical you inside waiting to be awakened…. Yes it is all true. But what is it that will awaken? Is it the “self” that is becom-ing more awake? What is the self? What is Self-Awareness (not simply self-consciousness)? If the self is a series of memory experiences, then what is it that is aware of these experiences as a grouped whole? And what is it that is aware of that?

        Awareness makes consciousness possible. Consciousness contains sensations, thoughts, perceptions, memories, feelings, desires, ideas, and so on. Awareness is the substratum of experience; It is what makes experience happen but is Itself not simply confined to any of it. Everything takes place within It; everything changes around It and through It, but It is the Source, the Creative Awareness, the Great Producer, yet also the audience. When the self reaches the level of being able to observe the play as entertainment, it and It has reached a certain level of Awareness and Freedom. When we simply Are, Knowingly this Awareness, then we are Free. But since we have identified ourselves with bodies, sensations, emotions, thoughts and beliefs, then we are constricted to what those restrictions bring. As a child, we thought as a child. As adult Homo sapi-ens, we see through those eyes. As Homo novus we are Awareness Perceiving.

        Anyone who is reasonably conscious can see that their bodies are changing, that governments come and go, that science, education, friends and lovers all change. We cannot stop that change. Soon we all die, no matter how hard the self-memory tries to work to preserve the past. What is it that sees this? We work so hard to preserve the past or to secure a future, but it is all play, entertainment, a moment or two on stage and then it’s over. Have you not yet discovered this? Do you not yet know you are but an actor or actress in a spontaneous play that never ends? You say the lines and do the melodramas, but do you know who you are? Do you even exist? You have a name, but is that you? After all, if you are but expressing lines, a function of memory, what is it that is actually existing? You are nothing but Awareness, but do you Know this?

        When you understand all this (and if there is some purpose of the play it may be to understand this), then you begin to find out what It is that is behind it all. But most are simply not interested, as the daily life, on the level of belief and concept, memory and thought, is the melodrama in which the “I” or self is bound in igno-rance of the Producer. Some may feel there is a secret force inside or outside but these are only spiritual-emotional or religious ideas, again to which the self is bound. And the self seeks religious or spiritual methods, thinking to “get” some-thing. Discovering the Secret self is the spiritual quest but the dis-covery of Awareness is the end of spirituality. Why is it the end? Because there is nothing else, and what is here is beyond the idea of spirituality. Then you are what you are.

        To wake up in the middle of a play, to sud-denly discover yourself saying lines, is like discovering having only been an actor or actress saying lines. We’ve all had these experiences and melodramas, but now they are as nothing. Yet we discover the whole cosmos is a play in which galaxies, suns and planets perform just as human beings – within Awareness. This is the Absolute which is prior to it all. And we are that. We are prior to any manifestation in the world, to all the things we think we are, and we are this in this very moment. This is not to be believed but Discovered. And the Discovery is the end of spirituality for there is nothing more to discover. There is just the play, the Absolute Dance. But “you” cannot discover Awareness. Why? Because we are It and this It is occluded and contaminated with thought, belief and sensate fears and involvement. The best we can do is to discover what is not true: And that is to look at ourselves. Here is where methods may help. When the false is subtracted, then we Know.

        To subtract the false may be a long and arduous process, depending upon the extent the actor or actress is fused to the act. Some “bad” acts that become too threatening to the actor or other performers are the clients of courts and jails. Other depressing and unre-warding performances are often relegated to psychotherapists in order to clean up the act. But the actor or actress who begins to see themselves as an audience might, who becomes a witness to them-selves and their acts, is beginning to know the possibility of writing their own lines and to step out of the social play as unconscious actor altogether.

        The actor has an attitude concerning the part played. And the part played requires an attitude. Society appears to demand certain attitudes so that it comes off a certain way, with great expectations. Everyone needs to do their programmed bit. The script is there and the actors need to know their lines; this is social programming. It is almost automatic. Here are the lines, and we memorize them as though they were ours. We learn them so well we even forget they are not ours. We become the actor in a play, not even knowing it is an act or a play. This makes the performance seem very real, as though it were reality. A successful play draws everybody in, as though it were real. And after all, with the cost of a ticket being so expensive (our life), we want to get our money’s worth. The problem is that in this play the audience, the actors and all the rest, cannot go home. They are bound forever to the theater of the absurd (absurd because it is repeated endlessly and desperately in different forms), thinking it is real, with great expectations.

        But suppose we get tired of the routine. Suppose we become aware of our boredom (or the mindless activity that substitutes). We begin to watch the whole thing; to watch ourselves as act, and notice that we are actually watching our-selves and wonder, how is it we are able to see ourselves acting? If we can see these images (acts), what is it seeing the image (act)? Before, we were just the unconscious image in the mirror stage. Now we see that it was the reflection to which we were bound – actor as image – which we took for reality. If we can see this, what is it that is seeing this? Are we more than image, actor or audience? Homo sapiens is the level of the animal with a constricted consciousness. But now this is seen. What sees this? And what a liberation!

        We consciously alter a line here or there in the play, not to rebel against the conformity, but because we are under new direction. The true Author and Producer makes a visit. We become the innovator, inventor, and the artist. And if the Ultimate descends in full, where the Whole Act is seen as Act, we get to go Home.

        To go Home is to be in Awareness as Awareness manifesting or not – without any limitation or binding act. Home is where You are, manifesting as It, and Everything Everywhere is Creatively Manifesting as It.  

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Thursday, May 1, 2008

Radical Consciousness

 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.

*****
COMMENTARY:

The still point waits for you. 

        

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Saturday, March 29, 2008

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

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Monday, February 25, 2008

The Stillpoint

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

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Radical Consciousness

Homo sapiens was only a temporary life-form, a speck, a point consciousness in the universal field of growth as Awareness. This speck-awareness, in the form of self consciousness, was meant to evolve toward a wider, more inclusive Knowing.

To wake-up is to see through the trance and hypnosis of all belief systems, religious or secular.

I say, with absolute certainty: Awareness exists beyond the duality of conventional consciousness; and that It exists at the center of yourself, even as yourself.

Radi

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