Relationship vs Isolation

by Phil Springer
There is little ease for those who treasure life within a comfortable consciousness and a life of goodness and fairness to all. Whatever became of it or did it exist only within our convenient consciousness? Who can numb themselves agains the atrocities of mass murderer i our mist? What is the comparison from the atrocities of Hitler and Stalin from the atrocities of our current mass murderers? The people of Hitler and Stalin's time were led to believe either in reigning ideology or live in fear of the ideological norm. But our mass murders are a lonely lot with little friendships or pair bonding, religious belief, family ties, or any sense of belonging. The live in relative isolation.

Having studied a variety of well thought out proposals about common ground this method appears to search only within the individual perpetrators. Why not search within something we might term as a problem in relationship? Over the many years of study of the human being the emphasis has been on the static individual measures such as IQ or many personality tests. We might also consider what I personally think of as a factor that is; the climate of violence could be studied if not capture and measures; a pathway could be realized.

I remember, as a young child living in Homestead Florida, during the Second World War the power of the weekly Newsreel in our local movie house. Japanese soldiers were throwing Chinese babies into the air and catching them with their bayonets. My reaction was immediate and long lasting rage towards all Japanese. I did not see that it was the same solider over and over again. Nor did I blame our government for impounding law abiding Japanese descendants U.S. Citizens civilians living in the United States many years. Propaganda usually has a pervasive effect on our consciousness.

So now you have it. The paragraphs so far present us with no easy road to the truth. Imagine for the moment we see thousands of people hurrying toward a hodgepodge of destination on a crowded busy streets. At first glance we may see hopeless confusion but they each find their way with ease. The people find their pathway by a process called bottom up processing. This is the opposite from top down processing, but these methods have take up their respective positions by way of evolution. Imagine how long it would take for the forces of nature to turn solid rock into tiny grains of sand. Since childhood I have struggled to comprehend the evolutionary process of mammals to the present human being.

There where 44 episode in the Blog of Consciousness. I don't foresee much ahead for me personally. There are no regret on my watch thought time is no longer on my side. I never expected to reach 86. My personal sand castle is facing a rapidly rising tide. My hope is for a continuing dialogue with those who follow the precess of exploring relationship. The trigger for this is inspired by a re-reading of Carl Roger's book: On Becoming a Person. This books explores the individual personality as a path for understand ing the hidden power of healing the psychological self. It was written in the 1950's s it has lost its place in she scheme of public life.

I continue to champion the Power of the Double Circle as an amazing tool. The Double Circle Group explores the circles in relationships between two individuals as well as the relationship between two fold groups.

45 Consciousness as a Metaphor

Each of the 25 animals tht were in session to help the human save the planet from annihilation of all living things we’re now beginning to reflect on their experience individually. While in group they had been somewhat restrained from speaking everything that they really felt about human consciousness; so some of them began to think about what it happened and how they might have missed the opportunity to speak out in a way that was understood by all. So let us look in on the private thinking of some of animals.

BillyG thought about how his goat ancestors had been lured into service of humans several thousand years ago giving up freedom of millions of years for free food. Now they were just herded, slaughtered or milked . They were involuntarily bred into the kind of goats that humans preferred. BillyG was not the only one to realize how the intentions of Mom Nature to maintain the natural order had been thwarted. Most humans are voracious predators demanding more goat milk and more goat barbecues. Some goats escaped into the mountains valuing their freedom above all else. Slippery rocks were less dangerous than clever humans. Is it odd that animals love humans. In spite of being treated so badly over many centuries animal still look up to the human beings.

Humans are moving through time and space faster than they can manage. Mother nature has given us organization which is the capacity to put things together in the right order.I think that humans are moving too fast to organize themselves. Rather than do what would be logical they live into warring factions how do we help with that?

44 The Mystery Revealed

Interlude

     Phil, the author. shortly after returning from a wedding, developed chest congestion. The x-ray indicated the possibility of cancer of the lung and he was referred for a PET scan which turned out to be negative. However, the original pneumonia smoldered, and he has just recently begun to venture out of the house. For a while the writing appeared hopeless. For over two years the author has attempted to examine the phenomenon  of consciousness for the purpose of getting humans to see their part in global warming and subsequent catastrophe. We are at an impasse. But we may yet find a natural phenomenon right before our eyes.

Episode 44: The Mystery Revealed

           In the last episode Leda, the dragonfly, rolled a bomb into the midst of the Group. Stark terror gripped the Circle. Leda announced that 76% of the world’s insects have vanished, her own family included.

         Hummy realized that something had to be done to settle the group so that it could at least come to grips with Leda’s shocking statement. His tiny little wings were beating up a frenzy. His mind was wandering aimlessly back-and-forth causing some dizziness in the tiny bird. The only thing that Hummy could  instinctively to do was to herd the group of 25 animals into a nearly perfect circle on the top of the great slab near the waterfall.       

          There was the  rich green of the mountains, the sprinkling of red hibiscus in the valleys below, the chatter of birds, and music coming from the rebuilding of homes in Roseau in the valley below.

          He and several others in the group  realized there was a force directing the group into a circle and in this particular case, a double circle.

        But as the double circle formed there was yet another force coming from within each animal. The force was simply ‘awe’ and probably not  describable beyond that. Within each living organism there is back door. Such a door must have prevailed following previous extinctions. However, the back door is not a true door but a force like gravity or the wind. It is not a thing to tag but a force to be reckoned with.

        Jake, the basset hound, barked out, “Aren’t we the lucky 25? We were safe in the cave and now we’re safely watching humans

rebuilding Dominica.”

       Though trying not to be a spoilsport, Mary the white pelican facilitator said, “We came here to save the humans from planetary destruction and now we’re watching them save themselves. I think we have missed something.”

        Hooie, the barn owl, hooted, “ The people of Puerto Rico are still wallowing in self-pity and the people of this small island have done a miraculous thing. What’s the difference?”

        Mum, the nanny goat, struggled to find  the  right name but faltered.

  “I see a mystery. “

        Mira the sloth, crooned slowly but deliberately, “ Just slow down and see what is happening to each home as it is being rebuilt. There is a rhythm and a flow, the people working on each home in unison. It is true teamwork.”

        Then BillyG bleated, “The word could be configuration. Imagine a school of minnows trying to cross the Pacific Ocean; the first, a family of seven or eight. The second school is a tremendous mass of millions of minnows and the third is a tight ball changing  shape as it goes and  appearing as something different that it is. To some it is just another predator. To others the mass appears to be a whale.

Which of the three configurations has the most likely chance of  survivorship?”

           

Epilogue

          Have we pickled all the available cucumbers? Certainly, we have some 43 episodes devoted to the issue of consciousness. Was the issue never consciousness to begin with? Should we move on into the unconscious? And if so, do we dare to plumb the mind of G-d?  For the moment, Phil, the author will study the unconscious through the medium of meditation. Hopefully G-d will poke through the cloud of the unknown.

Suggested viewing: Earth I and II David Attenborough