\Mass Changes of Consciousness
Our sanity is thinly based on a consensus of majority opinion.
What few of us realize is that this base is not static and is in a continuous state of evolutionary changes.
What is considered sane behavior in one Age, can become insane in the next.
As an example.
During the Stone Age, family groups existed purely on the day to day fortunes of the hunt. During that period, which lasted for some 100,000 generations, the concept of giving up the hunt, planting a seed and waiting for months for it to germinate and produce food, would have been considered insane.
This indicates that our base of sanity is defined and entrenched by the social and spiritual exigencies of each of the Ages human consciousness has evolved through.
The natural forces that force us to make major shifts of the mass opinion is primarily based on survival imperative, which, when challenged by the pressures of human populations impacting exponentially on stressed out regional environments, has forced our species to invent four distinct progressions of artificial occupational practices, which, in turn, have dramatically altered the focus of mass opinion.
Thus we have progressed from Stone Age family groups who’s existence depended on the fortunes of the hunt, all men believed, via Animism, in the favors of Mother Nature:.
In the second mass shift of consciousness, Bronze Age clansmen cooperated in agricultural husbandry and depended for their existence on the clemency of the weather, where all men worshipped ancestral spirits who could mediate on their behalf with the weather Gods. Shamans acted as spiritual mediums.
In the third great shift, Iron Age nations engaged in industrial development and relied on their existence via the fortunes of trade. They were spiritually open to scriptural indoctrination and the dogmatic assurance that a single Almighty God was exclusively in their favor. This contract was secured by the belief that and that their royal families were born via divine appointment
In the fourth shift, Steel Age international colonies engaged in advanced technological development, were forced, via the mix of dispirit national groups, to renounce the divine rights of kings. Republics governed by man-written constitutions, were entrenched by systematically deprogramming the mass psyche from rigid scriptural indoctrination via arguments in scientific determination.
From the above it would be fair to state that each Age change is marked by a mass shift of opinion as to what constitutes sanity.
As another example:
In antiquity, at the end of the Bronze Age, before the rise of the Greek mathematicians, all men, great and small, believed that the fate of man lay in the hands of the Gods. As our lives were believed to be pre-destined, oracles and astrologers where consulted as a matter of course. Their predictions regarding the future were taken very seriously by the whole mass of human kind, especially when it related to the fate of kings.
Thus up until about twenty five centuries ago, to believe in free will would be considered as defying the Gods and, in this sense, one would be declared by the opinion of the majority, to be insane.
Then as the mysteries of the cosmos were gradually unraveled with geometrical precision, the accurate predictions of mathematical equations gave rise to logical argument. As this logic gained ground, the opinion of the masses gradually shifted from a superstitious belief in the metaphysical influences of the moon and stars as they moved through the heavens at one’s time of birth, to a Newtonian gravitational grounding in scientific determination.
This fourth great shift in the mass consciousness of a former ape, did not happen over-night of course, nor was it made without strong resistance from the fatalists who stilled ruled over the hearts of men. But gradually and surely, as the cosmic mysteries were revealed with clockwork precision, the superstitious hold on human consciousness was finally weakened and the logic of physics, ruled by the Lodge of Science, took a firm hold on the mass consciousness.
And so here we are today, except for a fringe of religious fundamentalists, all men, great and small, believe that the fate of man lies in the exercise of his own free will and that the position of the stars at the time of his birth have nothing what-so-ever to do with his destiny.
Thus the concept of Free Will challenged the hand of Fate and established a new mass opinion, and anyone today, who believes in a pre-destined fate, and who consults an oracle that can predict future event, is considered via the opinion of the masses, to be insane.
So here’s the $64,000 question:
If the predictions described in the previous posts are considered by a minority to validate super-natural forces that lie beyond rational determination, or by the majority to be no more the sub-conscious exercises of free will – will this majority consensus, which is essentially atheistic, hold true during our fifth great shift of consciousness into the Nuclear Age, as exponential population pressures force us yet again into a whole new paradigm of occupational constructs?
Efficient planet stewardship presents a scenario that lies beyond the current artificial fiscal constraints of an increasingly redundant Steel Age mind-set and its narrow corporate goals. A new occupational contract will have to be instituted in order to accomplish the large scale engineering feats that sustainable planet management demands.
Such a mass shift of consciousness will require a new criteria for measuring our sanity.
For a New Age to succeed it will require an egalitarian global society, no longer at war; who have adopted a global ethic based, not on the policing of artificial political boundaries, but on universal custodianship. It will require all of us working in complete harmony to steward the home planet as a single family estate.
Will such a consensus of the mass opinion be achieved via reliance on an atheistic mind-set – or require a fifth great shift into an ontological belief system, which marries physics to metaphysics?
If past examples of a specie in over-population is any criteria, if this massive brain of our is not fully employed to make the mass shift soon, the alternative, as the pressures keep mounting, is mass extinction.
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Tell that to countless mystics who have suffered whole lives of self-imposed torture just to catch a glimpse of Divine magik