Trunk/Chapter 7 of Silent Oracle
A vitally important feature of supraconsciousness is that once world humanity has embraced it every individual shall be quite incapable of lying and deceiving.
At present we have not graduated to intellation. We merely think. Not only is our thinking contained by the false conscious mind but it is also common practice to lie and deceive, given our existing false reality and its many different beliefs, interests and objectives. It has to be so because agreement is impossible between so many contrary personal opinions, loyalties and Machine-pressures.
Agreement is the foundation on which a supraconscious, ie wholly human society shall be based, and absolutely essential to agreement is TRUTH. This gives reason why such a society is right for us, for our chief faculty is the postconscious whose sole function is truth, so by fulfilling ourselves we shall naturally find ourselves in agreement.
Instead of competition there shall be cooperation. This means foregoing the excitement of competition and the satisfaction of winning, but also the dissatisfaction and misery of losing. Cooperation can only increase in satisfaction the further it goes. Fickle competition, on the other hand, gratifies some at the expense of others. When tempered by kindness and a sense of fair play it may be tolerable, but taken to extremes it becomes intolerable. The insanity of competition is illustrated by the ultimate extreme which it regularly, inevitably reaches - war.
Supporters of Machine-reality point out that competition is a spur to getting things done which cooperation cannot achieve, but although history often bears this out it is not correct. Throughout its history our civilisation has been governed chiefly by competitive money-economics. Human workers have always been of less consequence than the Machine and have often been downtrodden. We have little or no recent experience of full co-operative freedom. Consequently, when such as the communist regimes or trade unions have forced the competitive Machine to give ground to the workers, the latter have taken advantage, where possible doing less work but demanding higher wages. This does not mean that co-operative freedom can not succeed, but that competition of any kind is, in human terms, totally inappropriate.
I have frequently mentioned the word TRUTH, and should now explain what I mean by it. I mean much more than is explained by factual truth.
By comparative reason the postconscious mind produces truth which we recognise in the same way that most of us appreciate musical harmony. Every human being possesses the postconscious faculty, so, via conscience, we commonly recognise the essential truths. By the same process, but following the deep reasoning of our independent postconscious minds as far as it can go, we are capable of acknowledgeing whole humantruth.
Facts can be proven true by concrete evidence, but deeper truths are arrived at by pure reason. There is no denying the moral truths of conscience. The moral against killing is the result of the postconscious weighing all the pro's and con's and eventually reaching the firm conclusion that it is wrong for any human to kill another. Main features taken account of are the tragedy of a life cut short, the tearing, bloody destruction of a vitally living thing, the physical pain it must bring, the emotional stress it leaves behind in the victim's kith and kin, not to mention that of the killer, and, in the minutes or seconds leading to a human death, the victim's sense of injustice, a personal sense that must be almost inevitable whatever the crime was and whatever the law says, because inhuman crimes arise from inhuman circumstances.
Confusion about the meaning of truth arises from the fact that we use the conscious mind which, because of its limited structure and because it is subject to interference by self-will and the influences of Machine reality, is incapable of whole truth. Therefore our experience is composed of much contradictory part-truth, or falseness masquerading as truth under the banners of 'belief' and 'faith'. This suits competition but makes cooperation impossible, explaining why our society is in a state of upheaval. The conscious thought-process is biologically similar to the postconscious but, whereas the postconscious is free and independent, the conscious is, as we have seen, subject to restrictions and controls. Conscious thought is largely a matter of selecting incomplete conclusions or opinions, supporting them with contrived reason, and investing them with the appearance of conviction.
There is no such confused manipulation in the postconscious mind. Using pure reason, it pursues truth and does not lay claim to it until found, when the postconscious can convey it to consciousness as 'known'. This pure reason is not to be written down like a fixed mathematical equation. It is a continual stream of untold trillions of tiny signals, each arising from some minute feature or nuance of ongoing and accumulated thought and experience. Every signal seeks interconnection with every other, reacting positively or negatively. Negative reactions cause the signals to seek elsewhere, but positive reactions cause them to form into groups, eventually reaching a higher level of reason. Groups are continually joined by further positively-reacting signals, and seek positive reactions from other groups, which then join to form colonies which join other colonies on a yet higher level. Whereas those signals which constantly fail to make any positive connections eventually fade away, the others go on to form ever larger colonies until they become a huge construction of reason on the sixth and highest level, which no new positive signal can add to and from which no negative signal can take anything away and which, therefore, is true. These true constructions congregate and produce true conclusions. A postconscious mind which is made up of nothing but interdependent true conclusions is a mind, or intellect fulfilled to the optimum, but must always be open to new, true thought and to consequent reformation as necessary. To this end, signals are continually passing between levels, so that a tiny piece of new information at level 2 can cause a chain reaction ending in a colony of thought at level 5 jumping to level 6 and suddenly forming a new construction of truth. If and when made aware of such new truth we would presently regard it as inspiration, perhaps divine, or, at one time, as the voice of the oracle.
In relation to the right way for us to live, human truth, or humantruth, is a quality of caring and compassionate goodness which is supported by reason and shall come to be accompanied by the most powerful of our emotions. It is supported by reason because it is better on all counts than uncaring, aggressive 'evil'. Humantruth includes the principle of EQUALITY by which the actual physical and mental differences between individuals are compensated for by the strong giving and the weak receiving until all are brought to an equal level of welfare and regard. Humantruth includes all other qualities and practical principles which optimum reason supports. The musical quality of perfect pitch or harmony. The quality of beauty in a flower, or bird. The practical principles of fairness, forgiveness and tolerance, also of consideration and forbearance in human relationships. Truth is that structure of reason in which no fault can be found. It suggests that which is level and plumb; straight as an arrow; perfectly honest; also that which is perfect in concept and spirit. Above all I take truth to mean utterly complete reasoning of all that is knowable; a state of being that is dissatisfied with anything less than truth, that is devoted to pure reason and accepts responsibility for conducting its physical existence accordingly; the source of right, honest and good morality on which that state of being is founded. And in humanly true society all such qualities and practical principles are upheld by common, supraconscious, agreed awareness.
Supraconsciousness is a state of cooperation between the conscious mind, seeking for, but itself incapable of truth, and the postconscious whose function is truth. Ideally, it should begin early in life with the conscious plying its postconscious with questions and encouraging it to work with optimum energy and speed towards producing answers, so that the individual's mind is truly founded. But the supraconscious process can begin in earnest much later in life when our consciousness of the fact that we are far from 'knowing' truth exerts increasing pressure on the self to remove the conscious mind's false foundations and structures, and to rebuild more honestly and thoroughly. These are THE PROCESSES OF INTELLATION, far beyond solely conscious thought (extensive and complex though that can be).
The question regularly arises - how do I become supraconscious; what must I do; how can I learn? One answer to this question is that you as you stand do nothing, for youcan learn nothing of this. You are presently your wilful conscious self, surfing, relating to and acting upon the thinking and learning of your conscious mind. The conscious mind is not capable of truth, therefore it alone cannot unquestionably know truly, and your wilful conscious self cannot, with certainty and excepting by chance, decide or act truly. The other answer to the question 'how do I become supraconscious' is given by your acknowledgement that the supreme representative of human being - of your being - is not the conscious mind and self but the postconscious mind, whose function is truth. Being supraconscious, therefore, is not a matter of you and your conscious mind taking the initiative. It is a matter of you submitting to your postconscious, opening to its infinitely deeply intelligent truth as your moral guidance, and allowing only this to govern your conscious thinking and to determine the initiatives and actions you take. This is difficult for people to appreciate because intellation is very different from the way of thinking to which we have grown accustomed.
To submit to the postconscious is to doubt, question, criticise and reject any 'truth' that is not confirmed, after a long process of intellation, by its utter reasoning and made undoubtedly known to you as truth. This means that you make no significant decision and take no action unless and until it is clearly and certainly right.
The supraconscious way to defeat the Machine and transform the wrong reality is not directly to oppose it by force but simply to decline to go along with it and withdraw support from it. If the great majority become supraconscious, that transformation shall become inevitable, its success assured.
Though it may seem, and might actually prove, beyond us to achieve a supraconscious human society, it is not impossible. It is important to realise, furthermore, that for any intellectual race to be supraconscious is its true nature. Such a humanly true society would see an end to our judging others from the outside, and perhaps mistrusting them. We would then relate to, and trust others as between equal postconscious minds. Such trust in true human nature would fortify it.
The kind of society that supraconsciousness would bring would be a matter of worldwide agreement among individual minds. Certain features are strongly indicated by human truth, however, and it should be remembered that by the time we were agreed our overall attitude of mind would have changed fundamentally - from acceptance of competition, for instance, to utter belief in cooperation, and from the concept of possession to that of sharing. Also from the old belief in the necessity for powerful leadership and governing authority to new acceptance of INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY. And, last but not least, we would have totally banished the concept of money economy.
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DIAGRAM 2A FUTURE SUPRACONSCIOUS ARRANGEMENT OF THE HUMAN MIND
WITH POSTCONSCIOUS DOMINANT AND SUBMITTED TO BY THE CONSCIOUS
I am hesitant to make proposals as to the character and structure of a humantrue society when this is a matter for widespread discussion and general agreement. On the other hand, since I am urging that existing Machine-society be dismantled I feel called upon to outline a workable humantrue social structure to replace it. Unless it can be shown that such a society is viable, to propose it might well be thought fruitless. It is difficult to make these proposals without seeming dictatorial, especially to people who value their so-called freedom. I think the fact has to be faced that for a humantrue society to work there must be basic equality and conformity. There should be no question of compulsion, but those principles we have agreed, we must observe. Individuality may be given full rein in the abstract.
It seems to me certain to be a chief feature of supraconscious society that its basic structure and everyday practical activity would be simple, while its abstract expression, in music and all arts, crafts and other creative occupations of hand and mind would be complex. It makes utter sense to me that an advanced intellectual race should make its physical needs a matter of straightforward routine, putting the highest emphasis on fulfilment of the intellect, making the whole a reality affording deep emotional satisfaction.
My intellating brings me strongly to the conclusion that a communal way of life would be best. The present arrangement of life into roughly four compartments is far from ideal - firstly childhood, when we are specially segregated, informed and trained in many things but not shown our amoral world as it really is, nor taught to think critically about the actual principles and practices of Machine life, unfavourably comparing them with the humantruly desirable principles and practices. Secondly parenthood, when we are torn between home and workplace, between reality and the ideal, between pretence and honesty. Thirdly middle-age, when our children autoprogress, leaving us behind, and we start sliding down the slope from the useful to the superfluous. And lastly old-age, sometimes isolated, increasingly dependent on largely instituted care, otherwise often forgotten or ignored by kinfolk. Generally, no part of present society is purpose-designed to cater for our best overall interests, and all is overshadowed by anxieties and fears.
By contrast I imagine an ideal framework of HUMANTRUE SOCIETY, set up to serve the welfare and happiness of the whole of humanity, based on largely self-sufficient communities of perhaps 100 persons of all ages. In so imagining, it is important not to be swayed unduly by recent experiments with communes which have failed due to the fact that they attempt the impossibility of isolating themselves from a very contrary reality, and because their members bring to the commune many of the ingrained values and practices of the Machine which don't fit the communal ideal. In my imaginary community, up to the age of 15 or so children are first taught supraconsciousness, then the basics - reading, writing and arithmetic, by their parents and others. At the same time the children also learn everything about communal life by experience, taking part in all communal activities along with their parents. Both parents remain with, and care for their children, at the same time as working on communal chores, throughout this period.
When the children reach 16 or so, thinking truly and having developed their musical and other artistic abilities and learned all there is to know about the principles and practices of communes and their worldwide intercommunication, they begin appropriate advanced studies, during the course of which they usually marry. With the benefit of practical and abstract skill and world study they too spend most time caring for and teaching their children and guiding them through their experiences. About two births and twenty years later, the children having become independent, the parents, their communal chores done, concentrate on study either from the home commune or elsewhere. Their studies follow their own interests but include preparation for a specific skill which takes account of aptitude and personal preference but is otherwise voluntarily chosen chiefly on the grounds of general need.
At about forty years of age, the adult women and men are ready to work to provide those things that are needed but cannot be produced by the communes; in power stations including wind farms etc., agricultural units, manufacturing plants, mines, all operating on as small and safe a scale as possible and strategically placed between the sources of raw materials and the areas they supply. The independent adults would also run very much simplified transport systems, and TV, radio and computer networks. Everyone would live in a commune, either their home community or one near to their workplace. All would be entitled to periods of travel worldwide, staying in guest houses which every commune would maintain.
Everyone should contribute to working out this framework and system, of course. I am only suggesting various ideas which have gradually formed in my consciousness. For instance, I see the basic human living unit as the Mainhouse, representing the basis and core of human being which every other feature of society serves. I have already suggested one hundred as the ideal number of Mainhouse members. Every tenth Mainhouse becomes a Middlehouse, which holds regular meetings of ten Mainhouse members and passes on information, advice and requisitions. Every tenth Middlehouse is a Gathering, which performs a similar function on a larger scale. The Gathering is the largest organisation in the human world, representing ten thousand people, its overall routine affairs being determined by Mainhouse and Middlehouse agreement, the same structure anywhere in the world.
In order that this system shall function, the worldwide practical pattern of society would be worked out in reasonable detail, so that the Gatherings serve, rather than dictate to Mainhouses. To overcome the problems of upper hierarchy and centralisation of power in a few hands, I suggest that there should be no structured responsiblity beyond the level of the Gathering. Instead, there would be a powerful computer internet system carefully programmed to administer provision of supplies and transport and information worldwide. This internet would be open to critical inspection by everbody, and would have checks and balances built in which would ensure that it was essentially subject to individual human control.
Human society would have built into it every necessary protection of the environment, every feature expressing morally-aware concern, and every opportunity for intellectual and true emotional expression. It would be held together not by ruling authority and force of law, but by individual responsibility founded upon totally shared true understanding of postconscious minds in common.
Objections to these proposals can be anticipated. Many present realists will regard these ideas as idealistic Utopian visions. They might see as insurmountable the difficulties of setting up these communes in countries with very different infrastructures of cities, towns, villages; with (or without) vast road, rail and airway networks; huge self-motivated industries; numerous institutions of all kinds; millions of people who have enough trouble understanding and fitting in to this reality.
Yes, this proposed ideal reality does seem an almost impossible undertaking - a huge upheaval. But this is to overlook two truths. The first is that existing reality is inhuman, not viable, and sliding downhill. The second truth is that an ideal reality of the kind proposed is the only right and viable reality for humanity because it is true; that every human has a postconscious mind whose full function is truth; and therefore that every single individual is potentially in agreement with the ideal, also ready and able to build and sustain it.
The fact is that up to and including the present day humanity has rejected its truth. If the human majority determine to keep their minds closed in this way, wrong though it is nothing can be done directly. The wilful conscious self is at liberty to determine its beliefs, regardless of its postconscious, regardless of truth. But though the whole world turns its back on it, the truth remains true. Truth is the only way, and however you deny it you really know it because your postconscious knows it, and the postconscious, being your chief faculty, is the actual you.
1. OPENING
2.EXPLAINING LIFE
3. FROM UNCONSCIOUS TO CONSCIOUS INSTINCT
4. MIND MUTATION ENDS IN DIVISION
5. CONSCIOUS RULES DESPITE CONSCIENCE
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