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THE ONE INDESTRUCTABLY RIGHT CONSTANT TO GIVE US COMMON GUIDANCE IS HUMANTRUTH
Trunk/Chapter 9 of Silent Oracle - Tr9
On Earth, the human postconscious mind is our means to WHOLE TRUTH. But since that whole truth is all-embracing, indestructible and everlasting, it must have a form of existence, also a means of communication and a way of exerting influence which we don't yet fully understand. There are other phenomena, such as the force of gravity, whose effects we know well but whose nature is, I believe, also not fully understood. Just as gravity works, whether or not we understand how, so does the postconscious exist and work. The influence-force of whole truth is unique, however, because it is remote from and unaffected by the turbulently destructive processes and events on Earth and throughout the universe, yet embraces and understands them perfectly. The influence of whole truth has a huge potential for human good that we do not yet comprehend. Eventually, when we are fully aware of humantruth and have realised it in our world, reality shall have become what it truly should be. We need awareness of truth above all, not only for us but for any other supremely intelligent race existing elsewhere in the universe.
You may be critical of the foregoing, unwilling to go along with it. One reason may be that you value your freedom to be what you want and see this as an unwelcome attempt to change you. The fact is, however, that there is NO ACTUAL FREEDOM. At the extreme of civilisation's privilege scale, Americans feel themselves to be the most free yet they are the most complete slaves of the Machine. We can have freedom to be truly ourselves but that means being responsible to truth, not being irresponsibly free to do whatever we instinctively will.
Many of us look for EMOTIONAL or spiritual answers and solutions to our own and the world's troubles. But only intellect can satisfactorily answer and solve our questions and problems, and it is this that must be our first concern, otherwise false reality shall continue to make a mockery of our deepest emotions.
Of course, emotion is our sensual experience of life and is of great importance to us. But the function of human emotion is to follow reason. In the rest of nature, feelings are appropriate to proper instinctive action. For humans, while some instinctive feelings must remain, such as those of hunger, thirst, pain, fear (within reason) and loving comradeship, other instinctive feelings must fade away, as they shall when they are no longer fed by the influences of competitive aggression, possessiveness and self-interest. More than that, positive emotions will attach themselves to new, humanly true concepts and practices, and take a negative, non-accepting view of humanly false values.
In his autobiography and elsewhere, William Wordsworth describes the feelings engendered at his mother's knee, and by his wanderings among all the beauties of the Lake District. He was lucky to grow up in a loving and caring home, in idyllic surroundings. Later in life his childhood memories would be recalled, and their indelible mark would play a strong part in guiding him. Such should be the common experience. Not that we all can live in idyllic circumstances, but our world and locality could and should be such as to endear us to it, supporting our contribution to the general community and helping to make the whole a fulfilling and enjoyable yet wholly sustainable experience. We may feel this as nostalgia, of course, for times long gone, but there is no reason why we should not also come to love our own familiar setting. It only requires that it is built and laid out with caring hands on humanly true principles, that it is well tended in the same spirit, and that it shall not be subject to unnecessary change for change's sake. But we are used to a reality of a different kind, which can sour our relationships with our fellow men.
We might contrive to enjoy the world as it now is, but only by shutting out its many unpleasant features. That is barely possible in any case, even for the most thick-skinned. For most of us, even if we don't recognise it, there are fears lurking at the back of our minds. Some of these fears are vague, while some emerge into stark and terrifying imminent reality.
The unpleasant features of life, and the fears we live with are illustrated by two other poets - A.E. Housman in 'A Shropshire Lad' - the verse whose first line is 'But here in London streets I ken' - and Louis MacNeice in the last verse of 'A Prayer Before Birth'. I had intended to include these two verses at this point but the question of copyright fees arises, not only for this website but any future reproductions, and I don't want to go down that road. Copyright is a matter of law, a means of writers earning their living which can be justified in terms of Machine reality, but it well illustrates the case against the Machine. These telling verses from Housman and MacNeice (both of whom are long dead) reveal the inhumanities of the Machine in a manner only poetry can achieve and deserve to be freely publicised as widely as possible, certainly on the internet. But yet again the Machine, defending its own interests by making writing into a money matter, is allowed to prevail against true human interests.
We have a world in which there exist men who have brutally murdered pregnant women and little children; men who torture in horrible ways; people who stand by and watch others starve to death. They do these things because this is a reality in which these things are done. However good, we ourselves might be capable of such acts because the main things that we do in this conscious world are dictated by our circumstances, not by our moral values.
This book shows us our true mental potential; how we can fulfil that potential in ourselves, and see that it is honestly reflected in the principles and practices of world society. Such a society of enlightened people shall be enabled to live by human truth, indeed shall be quite unable to do otherwise.
Obstacles in the way of this attempt at communication keep cropping up. For example, the fact that there is no real place in our present reality for the supraconscious. Reasoning that is perfectly understandable among postconscious minds shall not be immediately comprehensible to conscious minds. A conscious mind that persistently refuses to take it in shall continually fail to understand that reasoning. Otherwise the conscious mind, if it is to understand, must pass such reasoning to its own postconscious for interpretation. To do that is to be supraconscious - the humanly right thing.
So becoming supraconscious is a matter of the conscious mind submitting to the guidance of its postconscious. This is the meaningful aim of human life, the potential of intellect - to fulfil itself by the discovery and realisation of humantruth.
What is happening here on Earth can be pictured going on all over the universe. Typically, intelligence blossoms but is cut back and controlled by wilful instinct. Then comes a long period of half-intelligent, blindly constructive and randomly destructive behaviour, followed by a life or death struggle between a strong desire of individuals to rediscover their whole intelligence and a grim determination of the Machine to keep that intelligence - our true intellect - dormant.
We revere the past, simply because it actually occurred. We revere figures from the past, men like Alexander the Great, who was in fact a bloodthirsty tyrant and who has his physical and financial equivalents in the present. We revere relics of the past - majestic buildings, ancient institutions; marks of a history which need not and ought not to have occurred.
We stick with rigid behavioural practices of history such as the money system, law and political authority although they are a continual shambles; with mental disciplines such as education, philosophy and religion although they fall short of true reason and are also clearly inappropriate.
The whole present, false scene, with its traditions, customs, habits and beliefs, is brought forward to reassert itself each day. Every morning we succumb to the pressure to continue conforming, reconnecting to our routine because there are as yet no other connections to be readily and safely made. We are rarely able to stand far enough back from present actuality to see it for what it really is - unintelligent, unsatisfactory, unworthy and insignificant - the wrong reality. Were it to come to a sudden end, leaving us to start again from scratch, could we conceivably propose to reinstate it? Hopefully, in the light of bitter experience and advancing enlightenment and despite our deep conditioning, even to think of reinstating the Machine would strike us as madness.
But in this present reality it is expected or demanded of the human self that it thinks with the lesser conscious mind and identifies with the conscious sphere of false reality. As a result the majority of individuals, and all of those in high places, have worked out a basis for thinking and being, a personal identity, which is realistically viable but, it has to be said, false.
This book claims to present humantruth. Realism confidently refutes that claim but is not in a position to judge. If you keep faith with your realistic identity - with your 'truth' relative to the existing false actuality - you will see absolute truth as untrue. You will be willing and able to contradict, deny and ridicule humantruth, favouring, in its place, painfully and no doubt courageously built opinions, beliefs and standards which enable you to cope with an equally false and often hostile reality and which you understandably defend with determination.
The established institutions support you in this but, being limited to the conscious sphere, they are not competent to discover and realise truth. Though we have grave seats of learning, powerful authoritative bodies, and complex affairs which are seriously discussed and constantly reported, we never reach the end of our problems, or of our questions. We have never truly worked out what we are, nor what we live for, but if all these great affairs were wiped out, without trace, we might then see that we can properly stand for nothing if not truth.
Strip bare all the trappings of existing human world society and what have you got? Aimless disunity. Viewing our reality from apart, what is it? Pointless complexity. To live with the world as it is and make the best of it is presently seen as logical and commendable, but our lives shall not be intelligently sensible unless and until we have a reality which is humanly true in every part.
An overwhelming obstacle to humanly true reform is the general disbelief that it could ever happen. Taking into account society's many wilfully different human characters it appears to be a definite impossibility. This cannot consciously be denied. Such reform needs universal interconnection of postconscious minds. At present, unless wilful selves in their conscious minds receive postconscious messages and, instead of blocking them seek their own postconscious interpretation, such intercommunication shall be impossible.
Our present world, and human experience of it - in the flesh or by way of the media - is chaotic and traumatic. Almost everybody is screwed up, some more dramatically or terribly than others, by the circumstances and experiences of their past being brought forward to form a painful background to their present. Millions of people seek help from thousands of doctors, counsellors and psychiatrists. With persuasive conditioning some are able to adjust in order to cope, but they are immediately followed by millions more of the succeeding generations, demanding the care and advice of many more helpers. Despite our growing concern and knowledge, the mentally disturbed do not grow fewer. The Machine, far from being the support that people need, is an unwelcome mental trial and physical burden, a crazy amoral system that forces its insanity on to us.
Our existing practices and concepts, together with their historical foundations, need to be buried with solemn ceremony, like burying the hatchet. Those practices and concepts advanced step by step alongside the development of first-level consciousness, in whales, then in the Neanderthals, and have now reached the level of human autoprogression. This is not the road for a race endowed with the postconscious faculty to be travelling. For us, it has to be by a huge leap of self-will that we embark upon supraconsciousness, the conscious mind determinedly supporting the process, climbing to heights of new awareness and shedding its false preconceptions on the way.
1. OPENING
2. EXPLAINING LIFE
3. FROM UNCONSCIOUS TO CONSCIOUS INSTINCT
4. MIND MUTATION ENDS IN DIVISION
5. CONSCIOUS RULES DESPITE CONSCIENCE
6. CONSCIOUS SUBMITS, POSTCONSCIOUS PREVAILS
7. SUPRACONSCIOUSNESS
Last Chapter 8. COUNTERFEIT EXPLANATIONS AND PERSONAL EFFECTS
Current Chapter 9. THE TRUTH ABOVE ALL
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Followed by Branches, a series of articles furthering the author's intellation, the first being Branch 1 - The Nature & State of the Human Race. These expand upon subjects already raised in The Silent Oracle (Trunk). To the conscious mind they may sometimes appear repetitious, but where they approach subjects already dealt with it is from different standpoints. My postconscious prompted me to write them because truth, to be verified, must explore all possible angles, and it is for this reason that they are included here.
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