HUMANTRUTHHumans are not yet ready for their truth.2008-03-12T17:14:28ZUser 438http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v438/OrgSpace NewsLogThe Vital Necessity for AgreementAnybody wishing to understand the thinking that lies behind the following short article is invited to read my website www.humantruth.org or, if they prefer, to read the new edition of my book The Wrong Reality (560 pages) shortly to be published by CheckPoint Press, Ireland. It is noticeable that in the interchange of thoughts and ideas within and between all departments and institutions of this reality there is a disposition to disagree. Politics depends upon disagreement, and philosophy is devoted to it. Disagreement persistently features in the articles and comments published by independent radical thinkers. Disagreement seems to be a way of life that involves a point of honour. We appear to regard it as a strength to hold firmly to our beliefs and opinions yet we know that there are always widespread differences between the positions that we take up. Since only one position can be completely true, broadly speaking, it follows that the rest of the beliefs and opinions must be incomplete and untenable.
In our present reality we may make decisions not on the grounds of moral truth but according to the numbers voting for or against. We also attempt to settle arguments by debate, which more often than not ends in unsatisfactory compromise because agreement, between many differently convinced factions, is impossible.
The solution to this problem is really quite simple. The basis of agreement is humantruth, which is the function of the postconscious mind, arrived at by correlating everything essential with everything else essential. All of us have travelled a certain way along the road to humantruth. On reaching each part-way stage on the road we are prone to identify that as our truth, unless and until we move on. But we do not attain whole humantruth until we reach the very end of that road.
When we have done all that correlating and reached the end of the road, we shall know whole humantruth. This truth does not belong to us – it is ultimately the same for everyone and nobody owns it. It is unlikely that all of us shall arrive at whole humantruth at the same time, but those who have will know they have, and their beliefs and opinions, whether or not immediately accepted or adopted, shall have the utmost value. By the same token, if we have not arrived at whole humantruth we will know that too, and will decline to present our opinions or beliefs as fully true.
It might be thought that we have neither the time nor capacity for all that correlating, but consider how much falsity we are conditioned by and attached to in our present lives. Think how much time we spend in reviewing, confirming and referring to that falsity in this present reality. Rather than build truth we persistently add fuel to the fires of unfinished reason. To arrive at humantruth in the midst of this wrong reality will be a daunting task. It involves breaking up the Machine and clearing away a mass of untruth. But subsequently, as falsity is rejected and humantruth built up, and as we steadily approach the road’s end, that task will become progressively easier and agreement more readily established. ]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v438/__show_article/_a000438-000026.htm2008-03-12T17:14:28Z2008-03-13T11:19:44ZTrue Communication
TRUTH MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS True communication
Normal human communication, between writer and reader, speaker and listener, is unlikely to break new, truly meaningful ground because it has to refer to common ground, ie to the existing version of reality, otherwise there can be little or no communication. This is the case even when one participant has made a breakthrough but the other has not. If there is to be meaningful communication between them, both participants must have made significant true breakthrough.
This demonstrates that the voluminous writing, talking and film making influences the continuance of this wrong reality’s thought and action on the part its institutions in the conduct of world affairs and their shaping of public opinion.
But new ground is being broken within the free and independent minds of growing numbers of individuals whose developing truths seem to be somehow inter-communicated through the ether, perhaps unconsciously using such as holography or morphogenetic fields. Experience suggests that this is the case, and that it is an accelerating process. ]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v438/__show_article/_a000438-000024.htm2007-07-01T11:35:14Z2007-07-01T11:35:14ZIntroduction to Wrong Reality, the bookThis challenging book asks, and answers the question why?, when we are a species endowed with undoubtedly high itelligence, do we live our lives unintelligently?THE WRONG REALITY by John Bapty Oates – brief introduction
"This challenging book examines the state of the human mind and world, carrying essential thought further than ever before and making the profound discovery that what we regard as our mind is in effect two minds, the conscious and the postconscious (unconscious describes a state of mind).
The brain mutation that made us human gave our existing conscious mind much increased capacity yet allowed it to remain motivated chiefly by instinct.
As the result the human race, despite high intelligence, has mainly applied itself to pursuing and developing the unintelligent competitive drives of instinct, responding to market forces, political and other pressures, continually causing man’s inhumanity to man.
But mutation provided a large surplus mental capacity that was sidelined and ignored by the conscious. This uncommitted, powerful reasoning capability formed itself into the postconscious mind, the source of conscience, with freedom and independence to follow its own unconstrained course.
The function of a free conglomeration of neurons, axons, dendrites, synapses etc can only be the ultimate discovery of truth. No other function makes sense. Clearly, then, the objective of our chief faculty, the postconscious, is truth, and such an intelligent species as ourselves needs to be guided by that truth (ie to be supraconscious), recognising it as the basis of complete agreement and cooperation, to be realised in a new world community.
Instead, guided by instinct, we have subjected ourselves to the Machine and its amoral Wrong Reality, with some good but also many immoral, crazy, painful and devastating consequences". ]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v438/__show_article/_a000438-000023.htm2007-03-04T13:04:23Z2008-03-05T15:36:01ZMorality firstAll individuals have the same true basic moral values, but practically all submit also to powers thought to be greater than themselves, whether these powers are major generals or high priests. In consequence individuals may be commanded or persuaded to commit acts contrary to those moral truths. Those powerful leaders also have moral values and laws but may also be persuaded to put these aside in the name of what they conceive to be greater considerations such as the interests of their own nation or religion.]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v438/__show_article/_a000438-000022.htm2007-01-14T13:33:05Z2007-01-14T13:33:05ZDetermining the FutureDetermining the Future
At last we are recognising that our present form of civilisation shall soon reach a sticky end. Those who survive will face the job of starting over. We will not want to repeat the huge mistakes of the past. How shall we make sure of determining the right future?
Webs...Determining the Future
At last we are recognising that our present form of civilisation shall soon reach a sticky end. Those who survive will face the job of starting over. We will not want to repeat the huge mistakes of the past. How shall we make sure of determining the right future?
Website www.humantruth.org containds two free books that identify past mistakes and propose an alternative, truly human way forward – Book 1 The Wrong Reality, and Book 2 The Silent Oracle. They set out to reveal the essential truth about the state of the human mind and world, as it is and as it truly ought to be.
John Bapty Oates ]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v438/__show_article/_a000438-000021.htm2006-12-05T11:37:45Z2006-12-05T11:37:45ZThe root causes of crime
Endless television programmes and newspaper articles, churned out day by day, are of no fundamental significance because they concern the Machine, our wrong reality. Our political and diplomatic actions and reactions refer to problems that they cannot solve on their own terms, because those prob...Similarly, our interests in life sciences, eg spirituality, designed to make personal life good and whole, are misplaced because it is the simple basics of life that should suffice to bring basic happiness, and the abstract exercises of the mind should be those added satisfactions, such as music, that are intelligent life’s further, deep satisfactions when, and only when raised on true foundations.
At the end of a court case, sometimes following years of investigations, one man is convicted of murdering another. Outside the courtroom, surrounded by cameramen, the murdered man’s wife and family describe how they fought tooth and nail to have the guilty man arrested and punished. The cameras home in on their emotionally stressed faces, enough to bring tears to the eyes of the viewing public
Events do not occur for no reason. Murder might be committed for a material reason such as robbery, or to silence a witness, or out of extreme jealousy. It might be prompted by other strong emotional urges, such as to prove manhood conferred by possession of a knife or gun, or for revenge, or to strike a blow against a society that denies us freedom and equal opportunity.
All these reasons can be related to the Machine and its influences. In an ideal community that did not support a competitive money economy there would be no real motive to rob. Any crime would be self-confessed and require no witnesses or battles for justice. Feelings such as jealousy would be tempered by communal trust and would carry less weight than repugnance for violence such as murder
The relatives of crime victims normally feel compelled to seek punishment for the perpetrators, although doubtful that it does any good in the long run. There is more concern now to rehabilitate criminals and more recognition of some causes of crime like unsatisfactory upbringing, but it is not generally admitted that the whole structure and nature of the Machine is not only the cause of crime but is also the main provider of both incentives and opportunities for it. ]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v438/__show_article/_a000438-000020.htm2006-12-03T12:28:59Z2006-12-03T12:32:27ZSpreading the WordAn extraordinary experienceThe following comment was posted by Samantha on 6 Sep 2006 on my post Wrong Reality dated 22 Aug 2006
”I had the most extraordinary experience of my life on 22-8-06. I woke up with the words 'individual responsibility' booming in my head. I started typing at my computer and wrote about how IR was a 'lost reality' for man and how (with all our material self created 'needs') we are living in the 'wrong reality'. When I Googled IR, I found John Bapty Oates' chapter 41 which matched immaculately with what was in my head at the time.”
In a further comment on Samantha’s comment I suggested that this experience was a matter of our thinking coinciding but later on said “This is not to deny that other forces might be at work.” Anyone interested in the possibility of such forces but, like me, not well acquainted with them, might like to read the following.
This is taken from a CoIntelligence report on Rupert Sheldrake’s deductions relating to morphogenetic fields: “When crystals of a newly synthesized chemical substance, for example a new kind of drug, arise for the first time they have no exact precedent; but as the same compound is crystalized again and again, the crystals should tend to form more readily all over the world, just because they have already formed somewhere else” (this finding is mentioned elsewhere in my website).
Also taken from the CoIntelligence report: “Sheldrake has hypothesized a field of morphic (‘pattern-related’) resonance in which patterns of knowledge, structure or behavior of a certain kind of thing (whether a salt crystal or a human mind) become increasingly embedded as a "habit," an ingrained pattern of information which influences and is accessible to other members of that category of thing. In commenting on the rat experiments, Sheldrake said: "If rats are taught a new trick in Manchester, then rats of the same breed all over the world should show a tendency to learn the same trick more rapidly, even in the absence of any known type of physical connection or communication. The greater the number of rats that learn it, the easier it should become for their successors."
This throws some light on the problem that concerns us all – question - how do we promote and establish a new civilisation when the weight of established institutions is against it? – answer – when our universally agreed moral truth weighs so much heavier as to be overwhelming. ]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v438/__show_article/_a000438-000019.htm2006-10-25T15:18:55Z2006-10-25T15:18:55ZWrong Reality
AS A SPECIES WE ARE HIGHLY
INTELLIGENT
BUT OUR BEHAVIOUR IS FOUNDED
IN THE COMPETITIVE DRIVES OF
INSTINCT!
INTELLECT APPLIED TO INSTINCT HAS PROVED TO BE A DANGEROUSLY EXPLOSIVE MIXTURE. IT CAME ABOUT READILY, WHEN WE KNEW NO BETTER. NOW THAT WE ARE COMING TO KNOW BETTER, NEED IT ... AS A SPECIES WE ARE HIGHLY
INTELLIGENT
BUT OUR BEHAVIOUR IS FOUNDED IN THE COMPETITIVE DRIVES OF
INSTINCT!
INTELLECT APPLIED TO INSTINCT HAS PROVED TO BE A DANGEROUSLY EXPLOSIVE MIXTURE. IT CAME ABOUT READILY, WHEN WE KNEW NO BETTER. NOW THAT WE ARE COMING TO KNOW BETTER, NEED IT BE TOO LATE TO MAKE AMENDS?
Derived from John Bapty Oates’ work - see www.humantruth.org ]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v438/__show_article/_a000438-000018.htm2006-08-22T09:21:04Z2006-08-22T09:21:04ZPART V – INTERPRETATION - The basis of religions
Just look around you at all the people and imagine what is going on inside each head. Each person, as a detached physical and mental entity, may be very different in opinion and activity but all are conducting, to some degree, a private and perhaps totally secret but essentially similar struggle...All creatures on Earth, excepting ourselves, pursue life with vigour and without question, requiring no more than the instinctive impulsion of energy, or life-force, to give them their singleness of purpose. We, having the faculty of knowing and reasoning, or intellect, require a reason for living, a purpose other than merely to live - a meaning to warrant our presence here. What we really want to know is truth, but growing understanding of truth would bring increasing desire to live by it. Existing reality is false and requires, on the contrary, that we automatically ignore, deny, or flout truth. To overcome this dilemma we have invented religions enabling us to claim morality while practising immorality.
The adoption of religions further enables us to combine morality with immorality by fighting to defend our own faith against others of different faiths. That we do this despite the fact that all religions are opposed to violence indicates that religions do not arise truly from within – from the postconscious mind and via conscience - but are imposed from without. Men identify with their different religious labels rather than with their true common humanity and use those labels to justify their unintelligent behaviour.
The many examples of religious war are well known, illustrating the insane contradiction between authority’s word and action and the strange willingness of men to obey orders and carry out violent acts that are truly repugnant to them. ]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v438/__show_article/_a000438-000017.htm2006-07-14T11:04:48Z2006-07-14T11:04:48ZBoring or Specific?Many people want a truly human world but few believe it really achievable. Have we any clear idea what such a world would have to be like, and are we going the right way of achieving it?Boring or Specific?
Daniel Pech said my writing is very general, therefore boring – not specific and thereby interesting. I understand that view. But this movement is about making a new civilisation, on the grounds that our present reality is not acceptable – not right for an intelligent species.
Since we have no example of the civilisation to model ourselves on, can we be specific about it? I don’t think so. Our task is to abandon the principles and practices specific to our existing wrong reality, all of them, because they are interdependent.
Our new civilisation will have to be built anew, founded upon moral truth, if it is to be the right reality. Some of the principles that are absolutely necessary to it will be very hard to accept and incorporate, such as equality.
Our present society toys with the idea of equality but recognises the principle of inequality. There is much political argument specifically about this and other matters, and the result is compromise – continual disagreement and conflict.
All features of the new civilisation must hang together. That’s why our planning for it must be general, all-embracing. The specifics of our existing lives relate to the wrong reality, founded on competitive instinct rather than intelligence. So that’s why our reasoning should be general if we are to get anywhere, and I don’t find it boring but compelling. ]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v438/__show_article/_a000438-000016.htm2006-06-02T14:11:32Z2006-06-02T14:11:32Z
It is noticeable that in the interchange of thoughts and ideas within and between all departments and institutions of this reality there is a disposition to disagree. Politics depends upon disagreement, and philosophy is devoted to it. Disagreement persistently features in the articles and comments published by independent radical thinkers. Disagreement seems to be a way of life that involves a point of honour. We appear to regard it as a strength to hold firmly to our beliefs and opinions yet we know that there are always widespread differences between the positions that we take up. Since only one position can be completely true, broadly speaking, it follows that the rest of the beliefs and opinions must be incomplete and untenable. 
All creatures on Earth, excepting ourselves, pursue life with vigour and without question, requiring no more than the instinctive impulsion of energy, or life-force, to give them their singleness of purpose. We, having the faculty of knowing and reasoning, or intellect, require a reason for living, a purpose other than merely to live - a meaning to warrant our presence here. What we really want to know is truth, but growing understanding of truth would bring increasing desire to live by it. Existing reality is false and requires, on the contrary, that we automatically ignore, deny, or flout truth. To overcome this dilemma we have invented religions enabling us to claim morality while practising immorality.