26 Jul 2005 @ 12:13, by John Oates
We live in the wrong reality, largely obedient to instinct. We need to envisage, then realise, a right reality, in which we shall be guided by our intelligent true morality.
Newslog 1 The Wrong Reality
We humans, clever but unwise, reckless of truth and disunited, are prisoners of consciousness, living in the wrong reality. Yet we are evolution's children, hopes of the universe, who, if we are to fulfil our potential, which is supraconsciousness, have yet to grow up, to understand and follow humantruth and to live by it in cooperative concord. ( Introduction to www.humantruth.org/basebook1.htm )
This is the wrong reality we live in, wrong because it doesn’t make sense to high intelligence. Yet it’s our reality, and we humans are highly intelligent.
The basis of our wrong reality – I call it the Machine – is the competitive money economy and the whole existing worldwide false financial, political and cultural conglomeration that it influences and controls.
It is clear that competitive instinct founded the Machine, and that the Machine then created and now sustains our existing version of reality. We are progressively introduced to the complex and painfully troubled history of that reality in the womb and in early and later childhood. With minds influenced in this way we contrive to adjust to the Machine, and devise personal strategies for coping with it in the future.
So we are presently harnessed to the Machine. We have to obey its rules if we are to survive and achieve the sorts of satisfactions it offers. Many people wish the world to be made better but vaguely, believing that it must be done by way of Machine reforms like cancelling 3rd world debt. But a truly better world cannot be built on the same foundations that support its antithesis, the false Machine.
Our present reality is in strong conflict with our innately true morality. Yet most of the many who disapprove of the Machine think we’re stuck with it. They do not believe we can possibly prevail against it. But we can. It will not be easy to defeat its present overwhelming ramifications nor clear away its undesirable principles and practices that for the time being permeate our minds and every inch of the fabric of our world society, but it must be done.
Individuals who are serious about the creation of a better world have to look beyond the pressures and preoccupations of existing false reality if they are to conceive a truly ideal reality for the future generations. They can achieve their objective by fulfilling their intelligence and so perceiving truth. But it is necessary for this truth to be spread wide and agreed upon if it is to take effect.
This is the difficulty. One mind knows a certain truth and passes it to another who doesn’t know it. But the second mind, not having passed through the processes of thought that led the first mind to that truth, will not understand and accept it. Indeed this second mind, its own incomplete thinking giving it to believe that it knows better, might resent, or violently disagree with the first.
These two minds will agree on this particular truth only when both have done equivalent thinking. Such thinking cannot be transplanted whole. Each mind has to find its own way to truth, and may do it independently, but all minds can stimulate each others’ thinking by honest challenge and encouragement.
Many people who are looking for reforms that never come turn to some kind of spirituality. It is possible to negate the ill-effects and escape the traumas of the Machine by retreating into a sort of mental no-man’s-land and a feeling of personal peace via the tranquility of meditation, but is this right? Co-existing with the Machine, as it has done for centuries, could spirituality now achieve the ideal objective, something it never has succeeded in doing in the past? Is it not our prior concern to engage our full mental resources in the construction of a truly moral society that itself will nurture tranquility and good emotions through right ideals?
Won’t such a large task as the total reshaping of our world society require that minds already truly enlightened in the abstract now turn to practical matters? That they absolutely concentrate on envisaging and agreeing the nut-and-bolt moral structure vital to such a society preparatory to having that structure fall into place without delay?
To achieve the ideal it will be necessary to take completely on board truths that we already recognise but that society has never properly adopted and then, putting these together, going on to further, wider recognition and adoption until we have it all decided and agreed. When that time comes our morality will no longer be opposed, but now fully supported, by our reality.
Also read The Wrong Reality Prologue www.humantruth.org/basebook1.htm
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