THE STATES OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

THE STATES OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
C. DALY KING

GURDJIEFFThe War Against Sleep

GURDJIEFFThe War Against Sleep
Colin Wilson

WITNESS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN BENNETT

WITNESS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN BENNETT
A great read for all

TRANSFORMATION

TRANSFORMATION
SYSTEMATICS of BENNETT

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

PART FIVE: BECOMING VS. AGING

Thus, 'BECOMING' whatever meaning you attach to this term beyond the usual word 'aging' should have begun in ealy life but seldom ever does in the natural way that GREAT NATURE set forth and the 'artifiicial' life of most tribes, cultures, societies, nations, and 'civilization(s)' have altered the 'COSMIC','UNIVERSAL' 'PURPOSE' OF MAN'S EXISTENCE--and plunged mankind into the downward spiral, often termed by certain groups,'THE FALL OF MAN'! To regain 'PARADISE LOST' is what BECOMING is all about in the long run and deeper meaning, perhaps.....find out for yourself, test all such ideas and reject those that don't work....thanks for your time in reading this...keep up the good work....until next time, if there is one on the time scale....of ETERNITY

PART THREE: BECOMING VS AGING

There are basically several AIMS to consider and to formulate accordingly: the aims of the body the aims of the mind the aims of the emotions the aims of the other,lower & higher centers These may and usually are different,even conflicting and difficult to realize as most of us soon realize and know. I certainly have found this to be true but you may be lucky enough not to have to find this out and find it easy to do.... This means something (or someone)has to be in charge of all these 'mechanisms'.these 'entities', these 'centers',etc. over and above their individual,often conflicting operation(s). This latter necessity is apt to prove controversial for some, since it has many implications. We need 'a good mechanic' to keep things in working order but our present state of existence shows, if we are honest enough, that we operate inefficiently and sporadically and burn far too much fuel,etc. Unfortunately, some unscupulous persons who set themselves up as 'mechanics' or 'guru's and the like lead everyone into the back waters and not upstream as needed to reach the place where the gap in the octave needs to be breached or overcome.....to get to the necessary point or step....more on this another time.

BECOMING: BECOMING VS AGING PART TWO

In AGING there are two 'OCTAVES': one descending and the other ascending. AGING is a descending Octave that 'goes with the flow'of ordinary existence, and is called, by some, INVOLUTION(involuntary). You can call if for convenience 'THE FIRST STREAM OR RIVER OF LIFE" in which all of us find ourselves when we first become awake and attentive to life's demands and necessities as well as the imperatives, such as, reproduction of the species and survival... The other, the most difficult, is called EVOLUTION or 'BECOMING' where one goes against ordinary things in life to achieve an AIM, a GOAL, that many label 'immortlaity', which is only attainable within 'planetary' limits of humanity as they/it exists now. Very few humans have reached this 'status' and those that have are both 'mythical' and 'legendary' and you can supply your own list of them, and I shall not do so, because I do not know them personally as far as I can tell..... Yes, very few humans have reached this 'status' of 'immortality' and so many humans give up long before they start and settle back into comfortable fantasies and vain imaginings and the like, 'hypnotized by the glamor of this world and the culture in which they find themselves immersed....more on this aspect another time perhaps.... As one 'ages'-approaching death, the reality of mortality sometimes becomes apparent. Then people tend to strive for a few more years to extend themselves or accept the inevitable process. In this case, a 'REMEMBRANCE/RECOLLECTION' of one's past becomes necessary so a possible 'carry-over' may occur. Of this latter more will be discussed another time, possibly under a different topic...

BECOMING: BECOMING VS. AGING PART ONE

BECOMING VERSUS AGING: What are you becoming(as you live your life in the ordinary, usual way, that most people do except in extraordinary circumstances and horrendous events,etc.)? Yes, WHAT ARE YOU BECOMING? OR, are you merely 'AGING'? Have you given up on becoming somone, the kind of person(or personality) you wanted to be, you still want to be, and all teh aims and goals inlife you once held? Are you still trying to improve yourself,improve your personality, improve your mind,improve your body, yourhealth, your income, your daily life,etc.? If so, in what ways? What are you actually doing? What are you truly doing? What efforts, great or small, are you making? And, are you helping others,whoever they are or might be, to do the same? Or is everything merely happening to you? Are events of any and all kinds simply occurring in your life,overwhelming you each hour, each day, each week, each month, each year? BECOMING is a special,creative process that is not merely 'aging" i8n various ways. Many attempt haphazard methods or let chance enter into it all. BECOMING also involves constructing a 'soul' which is an intense process involving or undertaking 'intentional' suffering, strenuous efforts called 'super-efforts' and controlling body, mind, and emotions through special ways, all called 'THE WORK' or 'THE SYSTEM'...among other things. All such 'becomings' are focused on 'REMEMBERING' THE 'SELF',of 'self-remembering', of sensing one's mechanisms and being present in life! BECOMING never ends, but aging does-in death. That is why it is necessary to construct a 'soul' and at present, you must begin with yourself, your body,your mind, your emotions at this very instant, the very moment, in your ordinary life as it is now, and create a line of effort and aim,or actually three lines of such.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS: PART A

PHILOSOPHY, which supposedly means 'LOVE OF WISDOM', can be approached from the perspective of being a 'national/ethnic' subject, which has been somewhat ignored by ACADEMIA but embraced by ordinary 'people in the streets' and taken to be extremely important as all such categories usually are....
Thus, we have not just 'GREEK' PHILOSOPHY from whence 'the love of wisdom' claims to have sprung, but 'ENGLISH','GERMAN','FRENCH' philosophies and an 'AMERICAN" philosophy which tend to depend somewhat for their understanding and influence on particular,individual and published philsophers(thinkers, intellectuals,professors,etc.),those persons, for one reason or another, who seem to be designated as such,whether or not they really deserve the title of 'PHILOSOPHER'.

EACH DAY OF YOUR LIFE IS REPRESENTATIVE OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE IN SOME WAY

On the scale of things, we can compare a single day in our lives to that of our entire life......all that goes on in a single day, if you review it at night before falling into 'the arms of Morpheus' and do this each night, you will discover many things about yourself, if you are 'honest' & 'sincere' and do not succumb to fantasies, speculation, vain imaginings, and allow false impressions and vague influences overwhelm you....