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957.1 | Prologue | REGENT::WAGNER | | Sat Jan 21 1989 23:30 | 46 |
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PROLOGUE
It has been said that unless mankind learns a new, more selfless
philosophy of life he shall soon perish. As a Social psychologist I have
studied the increasingly complex and lethal social problems of our world and I
agree that micro man is fast approaching the end of his life on this earth.
Indeed, micro man is frantically pursuing his own extinction.
Micro man is the individual with the limited microcosmic view or
philosophy of life in which self-centeredness is seen to be the only sensible
way of life. His life goal is to protect and please himself, his family, his
property, and his nation (in that order) in any way he possibly can. From a
limited micro perspective it is impossible for him to see the consequences of
his selfish behavior: fear, frustration, pollution. strife, and ever more
destructive wars.
"The time is coming when you will hear the noise of battle near at
hand and the news of battles far away: SEE THAT YOU ARE NOT ALARMED.
Such things are bound to happen; but the end is still to come. For
nation will make war upon nation, kingdom upon kingdom; there will be
famines and earthquakes in many places. With all these things the
birth-pangs of the new age begin." Matthew 24:6-8
With out environment being increasingly polluted and strife within
our nation and without also increasing, more and more people are losing their
hope and faith in the future. the wise advise, "See that You Are Not
Alarmed," seems impossible to follow, and it is impossible for anyone holding
a limited, micro perspective or philosophy of life. Only from a larger, macro
perspective or philosophy of life can one see purpose and meaning in today's
world situation and remain, "...not alarmed."
it is the purpose of this book to present the larger macro-cosmic view
or philosophy of life in which the real causes and, thus, the real solutions of
all human problems can be seen and considered. For those who practice this
larger perspective or macro philosophy of life the future will once again be
filled with hope and joy, and the advice, "See that you are not alarmed," will
be easy to follow.
An old way of life-the age of selfish micro man-is dying: But a new
age is being born-the Aquarian age of selfless, loving. macro man. this book
is designed to aid man in his adaptation to this new age by presenting the
foundation for world peace and unity--macro philosophy
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957.2 | Why Philosophy? | REGENT::WAGNER | | Sat Jan 21 1989 23:31 | 95 |
| CHAPTER 1
WHY PHILOSOPHY?
I believe that when most people think of philosophy (if they think of
it at all) they tend to think of the stereotype of dull, impractical courses
taught in college by dull, impractical professors. If I had not been so
fascinated with the fundamental questions of philosophy,(what is truth, what is
beauty, what is reality) I am sure that my own experiences with college
philosophy courses would have supported the above stereotype.
To the ancients, philosophy included all knowledge-all arts and
sciences. Obviously, only from the ancient mystical view of the macrocosm
(all is one-one infinite mind) could man hope to expand his mind's awareness
to infinity-thus, encompassing all knowledge. to micro man, who denied this
macro view of one infinite mind, it was impossible to know all. As ages
passed and man practiced narrowing his mental perspective, the micro view of
man gained in power and respectability and a macro philosophy which included
all knowledge was obviously (from a micro view) impossible. Thus, philosophy
was divided into the various subject areas of the arts and sciences, and man
became a specialist by learning more and more about less and less.
One of the consequences of dividing up the universe into pieces, like
Humpty Dumpty after the fall, was that man forgot how to put it back together
again. Man became caught in his own micro mythology and became divided and
alienated from his own greater mind, and, thus, divided and alienated from
his own fellow man.
As a mid-20th century student I too felt this self-other alienation
and sought to escape its anxieties by seeking truth and beauty from textbooks
and from my professors. After nine years of college and university life in
which I went from one subject to another trying to find ultimate answers, I
became a sadder but wiser student. Wiser only to the extent that I had at last
learned the truth and beauty exists only in the mind. Or, as Shakespeare
said, " There is nothing true nor false but thinking makes it so."
During these nine years I studied under many very learned and
brilliant men at three great universities and two small colleges in the U.S.
Yes, brilliant, and learned men, but no where did I find men of great wisdom.
for wise men are not narrow and overly specialized ads the modern Doctor of
Philosophy is expected to be. "By their fruits you shall know them," said the
wisest Man of all time, and in the quality(fruits) of my professors' lives I
found the same petty, narrow, and anxious concerns that I was trying to
eliminate from my own life.
Not only were educational leaders narrow but so, also were our leaders
in government, business, and religion. We claimed to be a Christian nation
but even our religion was divided into many sects and our nation certainly did
not practice the one commandment of Jesus-"Love one another as I have loved
you"-for our greatest national efforts were devoted to killing our fellow man
in war.
In my years of searching for wisdom that would free me from the narrow
prison of self-other alienation, I discovered that I lived in a society whose
leaders practiced the same micro philosophy as I did. That micro philosophy
doomed its unknowing disciples to a narrow petty life of fear and anxiety
through its self-fulfilling prophecy that all men are limited to a few
experiences in one short life and, thus, can never know all-or even
any-ultimate universal answers.
I know now that I had unconsciously, been in search of the ancient
concepts of macro philosophy. However, having accepted the micro philosophy of
separateness prevalent for the past several thousands of years. I found it
impossible to view myself/others/the universe/God from a macro viewpoint of
unity.
Micro philosophy did not satisfy me, nor could I see that it satisfied
anyone else in the long run. From psychology, sociology, and anthropology,
I had leaned that all human behavior is totally determined by heredity and
environment and that free will is a myth. As a counseling psychologist, and a
member of the American Psychological Association, I had no satisfying
philosophy of life for myself, much less for my clients, yet, I had a Doctor
of Philosophy degree.
Unfortunately, one can receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree and know
nothing about philosophy or anything else that would help a person live a
balanced satisfying life.
However, I had learned that it is not necessary to have ever taken a
course in philosophy or any other subject to have a philosophy of life. Each
newborn member of society is socialized by the process of inculcating certain
cultural beliefs about himself, about others, and about the universe. thus, a
person's philosophy of life is composed of the beliefs, the prejudices, and
the mythology of the family, the ethnic group, and the nation one enters into
at birth.
Yes, every family in every society provides its new members with a
philosophy of life-but, for thousands of years it has almost always been a
micro philosophy. This micro philosophy provides micro answers which are
fundamentally unsatisfactory in answering the three major questions of
metaphysics: Who we are, where did we come from, and where are we going.
It is how we answer these three questions that determines the
quality of our lives. In other words, the central core of our philosophy of
life is our self concept or how we perceive and define ourselves. Whether it
is conscious or unconscious, our philosophy of life determines whether we are
rich or poor, healthy or sick, calm or fearful, loving or hateful, and finally
happy or sad.
is this too much to believe? Yes, from a micro point of view, it is.
But you who are dissatisfied with the consequences of micro thinking in your own
lives, open your minds to a larger view of man-an alternative to micro
thinking-macro philosophy.
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957.3 | Introduction to Macro Philosophy | REGENT::WAGNER | | Sun Jan 22 1989 11:36 | 321 |
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CHAPTER 2
INTRODUCTION TO MACRO PHILOSOPHY
Just what is macro philosophy? is it something new? Not really. some
2,600 years ago Laotzu of China and Guatama(Buddha) of India were talking
about macro philosophy and attempting to practice it. Then, some 1900 years
ago, the man from Galilee not only talked about it but perfectly practiced
it-in a form that might be called macro counseling or macro therapy.
The philosophy which these three great men presented to the world so
many years ago promised perfect peace to a world filled with conflict.
Obviously, from the amount of conflict still existing today in the world, the
philosophy shared by these three men has not been understood, much less
practiced. Just what, then, is macro philosophy?
Macro philosophy is a system for relating all things from the
smallest(micro) to the largest(macro). It begins something like this: All
things are not only related but macro cosmically one. things are only
separate and divisible from micro view points or frames of reference. Macro
philosophy envisions a microcosmic-macrocosmic continuum (mM continuum) which
neutrons, protons, electrons are indivisible par of ever larger physical
bodies such as man. continuing, we can perceive man as an indivisible part of
a third planet called Earth, and then (again enlarging our perspective) we can
perceive this planet as an indivisible part of a solar system which is, in
turn, an indivisible part of a galaxy, which is an indivisible part of a ...
and so on. It is at this point, if not sooner, that we may be thinking, "Yes,
so what?"
All right- here is the concept that man has not been able to grasp in
more than a superficial way: Man feels pain and loneliness and experiences
sickness and death to the extent that he feels separate and divided from
self/others/universe/God. The social psychiatrist;, Erich Fromm, in his book
"The Art of Loving," states, "the experience of separateness arouses anxiety:
it is indeed, the source of all."
Why does the feeling of separateness cause anxiety? Perhaps one way
of answering this question is to suggest that anyone or anything that we
perceive as separate, foreign, or alien to us is always a potential threat. In
other worked, they are potentially anxiety producing. It is only when we feel
union or oneness with anything or anyone that we can feel comfortable,
accepting, loving-the opposite of anxiety.
From one point of view, a macro perspective, all human suffering, fear
and hate, pain and disease are the result of lack of faith that all is one-all
is love-all is God. This does not deny that negative thoughts and feelings
exist, it points out that they are the products of unbalanced micro thinking.
all the great religions of the world have proclaimed that, "As you sow, so
shall your reap." macro philosophy presents this in terms of the consequences
of negative and positive thought patterns.
The wise man in Proverbs 23:7, over 2,000 years ago, stated that, "as
a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Macro philosophy states that a
negative thought produces a negative feeling and a negative experience. while
a positive thought produces a positive feeling and positive experience. no
thought is ever forgotten-Jesus proclaimed this as ,"You must answer for
every idle thought or word." All our thoughts reside in our subconscious mind
(what the ancients called the heart) where each negative thought continues to
produce negative feelings until it is balanced or canceled (+and-= 0) by a
positive thought of equal intensity or strength.
Negative thoughts produce anxiety (psychological pain) such as fear,
anger, frustration, guilt, depression, sadness, etc. We try to avoid negative
feelings by denying their existence. That is, instead of recognizing that we
cause our own negative feelings by thinking negative thoughts, we try to avoid
our negative feelings by using psychological defense mechanisms such as
repression, projection, and rationalization, to name a few. how do these
defense mechanisms work?
all defense mechanisms are designed to reduce or eliminate
psychological pain by reducing or eliminating our awareness of our
uncomfortable feelings. Thus, we reduce our self-awareness to tiny micro
frames of reference, one very common technique is to shift the responsibility
for our discomfort from ourselves to someone else or something else.
Literature holds many examples of this technique of using both projection and
rationalization, but probably the best examples can be found in your own daily
life.
All of us occasionally have uncomfortable (guilt) feelings about our
job(we are not making enough money or getting the promotions we want), or our
family(we are not as successful as we would like to be in pleasing our spouse
or our children or having them behave as we would like). It has been easy for
us all to blame either circumstances(I don't have enough education;taxes and
government restrictions limit my business and myself) or individuals (my boss,
my spouse, my children don't appreciate me and my parents were too poor to
help me get a better education.) Of course, the reason these denials of
responsibility and guilt techniques work so well(temporarily) is that they are
true. However, they are true only from a micro perspective. From a larger
frame of reference, it ;is true that if our boss or our spouse and children do
not appreciate us we have failed to behave in a manner in which they CAN
appreciate us, from THEIR point of view.
For example, A certain business man insisted that to be successful in
his job he had to spend a lot of time wining and dining his customers and
playing golf and other sports with them. He bitterly resented that his boss
and wife did not appreciate how hard he worked. From his limited micro
viewpoint this was true and he was unjustly treated. Yet from his wife's
point of view her husband was home so little that he was a stranger to herself
and their children, so she was seriously considering getting a divorce and
finding a man who was willing to spend more of his time playing the role of
husband and father. From his bosses point of view a good employee would not
turn in such a high expense accounts and be away from the office so much that
communications between boss and employee suffer. The boss was considering
firing this unsatisfactory (from the bosses point of view) employee.
As illustrated in the above example, denial of larger reality(other
viewpoints) in the long run causes ever greater problems. The consequences of
reducing psychological pain by using techniques of self denial(psychological
defense mechanisms such as repression, projection, rationalization, fantasy,
atonement, etc.) are from the short term (micro) point of view successful in
reducing psychological pain. In other words, they do work. That's
why we use them. however. they are only temporarily successful because they
reduce their self awareness so much that we can conveniently forget that all
our feelings are caused by our own thoughts-never by anyone else's, from the
larger viewpoint.
Perhaps the least known consequences of psychological defense
mechanisms is the inevitable development of psychological stress which wears
and tears the body down until it becomes sick, ages, and eventually dies.
Research in this area has been developing for over 30 years under the
leadership of Hans Selye, M.D., who has summed up his research by stating that
if there is no stress or fight there can be no disease, pain, or death. For
those who doubt this, read his great book, "the Stress of Life."
The ultimate and long range consequences of self-denial is greater
pain (psychological stress), because they never eliminate the cause (negative
thoughts); they just temporarily reduce the result (negative feeling). A
dramatic example would be the case of alcoholics or drug addicts. To reduce
psychological pain they knock out (deny) vast portions of their minds to
temporarily gain relief from their feelings of discomfort, and are rewarded by
pleasure feelings. But, the causes are not eliminated and when the alcohol or
drug wears off the psychological pain is always greater. since they refuse to
accept the responsibility for their own discomfort-denying self and
reality-they are doomed to remain addicts until the pain gets great enough
that nothing reduces it. Then and only then, are they ready to accept
responsibility for their own negative thoughts,to ask for help, to learn a
larger perspective-a new truth.
What is truth? It depends on whose viewpoint your are using. And
from one point of view, there is nothing either true or false, good or bad,
painful or pleasurable, ugly or beautiful, but thinking makes it so. A
dramatic example of this is illustrated by the use of hypnosis.
Almost everyone will agree that having an arm or leg slowly cut off is
exceedingly painful. Yet some 5,000 physicians and dentists, today in
America, use hypnosis to perform almost every kind of operation, and the
patient experiences not pain. At least there is no pain to the extent that ,
and as long as, the patient is able to accept the deep hypnotic suggestion
that no pain exists. Thus, thousands of cases demonstrate that we can only
feel or experience anything to the extent that we believe(or think) that we
feel or experience it.
From a micro viewpoint, the way we think( and, thus feel) is
absolutely determined by heredity and environment, neither of which we have
any control over. And it is heredity and environment which absolutely
determine the quality and quantity of our early learning. Carrying this
micro viewpoint further, as most modern biologists and psychologists do, we
find that all present behavior is absolutely determined by past learning.
Thus, all future learning (behavior) is determined totally by heredity and
environment, over which no one has any control or choice. Therefore these
scientists say that man has no free will and all behavior is completely
determined by blind chance. And this is true, from a micro point of view.
However, this micro viewpoint denies that there is a larger
perspective. The world is flat, as any fool can plainly see. and the world is
flat from a one square mile viewpoint-or concave if in a valley, or convex if
on a hilltop. Thus, the size of your perspective (or sample of the universe)
determines what truth is, within that frame of reference.
Some scientists deny the existence or practicality of larger
perspectives such as the sub-macro perspective (sub-conscious or soul level)
or macro perspective (super-conscious or God level). It is ironic that
psychology, as generally taught in the past 40 years, has completely denied the
existence of a psyche (mind or soul) and insisted that psychologists can only
"know" physical or sensory data. The following descriptions of these macro
philosophic concepts will be quite unacceptable to scientists with a micro
orientation. It might be appropriate, however, to quote Dr. Seyle as follows:
"Great progress can be made only by ideas which are very different from those
generally accepted at the time."
The sub-macro views man as a great mind unlimited by time and
space,-sometimes called an immortal soul-which periodically elects to
temporarily inhabit various types of other vehicles (called human bodies) in
order to experience and learn self awareness in its striving toward ever
greater perfection (awareness that all is one.) The ultimate purpose of all
souls in all of their experiences is to attain macro-cosmic awareness, that
is, oneness with the super-conscious mind, or God. The reader who seeks
"evidence" for the above statements is referred to Cayce, and Sugrue, included
in the references at the end of this chapter.
Another way of looking at these three levels of awareness could be as
follows:
1. the micro self is an individual's body, personality, and limited
conciseness which believes that this is all there is of an
individual.
2. the sub-macro self or sub-conscious mind knows that the micro self
is only a tiny part or projection of the sub-macro self(soul) and
realizes that the micro self is like a new born baby who has not
yet learned that it is human (tiny part of a soul) and has a father
and a mother (symbol of the positive and negative polarity of the
human soul).
3. The macro self or super-conscious mind knows that all is one and,
therefore, is aware that the macro self contains within itself the
positive and negative polarity of all dimensions but is in perfect
balance. While there may be a temporary imbalance in the
individual souls (which causes their lack of macro awareness) these
individual imbalances are canceled out when put all together
within the perfect (balanced) macro self.
In other words, there are no problems at the macro level, and
eventually all souls will attain this perfect level of total awareness. No
matter how dark the night, eventually the light of day and the sun (son) must
come.
While mystics in all ages have described this ultimate macro
awareness, perhaps the best known and available reference to this macro
perspective is found in the 17th chapter of the Gospel of John. In this
chapter the greatest psychologist of all time states this macro purpose or goal
of all souls as: "...that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and thou
in me, may they be perfectly one." John 17:22-23
It is only from this macro viewpoint, in which the human soul or
subconscious mind perceives its oneness with all minds (superconscious,
universal mind, or God), that the soul cannot be threatened or become fearful
of anything, because all is one. Thus, it is only from this macro viewpoint
that the soul can obey the ultimate, or macro commandment: " Love one another,
as I have loved you." John 15:12
Macro philosophy teaches that what is right or wrong for anyone depends
on one's frame of reference or perspective. for instance, while it is right
for the Christian to eat pork, it is wrong for the Jew or Moslem. Another
example is, that while it is wrong to kill others during peace time, it is
right during wartime. this type of right or wrong belongs in the context of
social law or custom.
While societies expect conformity to laws and customs, there are areas
of personal taste or life style in which considerable variation is permitted.
for example, in our society, while we are not permitted freedom to choose
whether or not we will fight in wars, considerable freedom is allowed the
individual in his choice of food, clothes, and recreation. Our personal
philosophies, which may be mostly unconscious, will determine our choices in
these areas. Most people do not realize that their personal philosophy
determines whether they are fat or thin, healthy or unhealthy, and most of all,
happy or unhappy.
If we examine the size (temporal dimension) of our personal philosophy
or perspective, we will recognize that it is the size of our perspective that
determines our awareness of the consequences of our choices. for instance, if
Hedonistic pleasure is our major goal and our temporal perspective is quite
limited, we will be unaware of the long range consequences of over-indulgence.
We will eat too much of rich spicy foods and become fat and eventually sick.
We will avoid strenuous physical and mental exercise and become physically and
mentally flabby and eventually both unhealthy and unhappy.
Since we are all seekers of pleasure, it is extremely important that
we become aware of the size of our perspective, for short term pleasure
frequently causes long term pain. If we are really interested in maximizing
pleasure we must expand our perspectives in order to become aware of the long
range consequences (pleasure-pain) of our personal philosophies and the
choices they determine.
those who are micro bound cannot effectively (at feeling level)
comprehend anything beyond a physical view of man. Concepts such as the
sub-conscious, or soul, or brotherhood of man, are merely cognitive
abstractions with no effective referent for micro man. In other words, he
can not feel related, brotherly, and loving toward even his closest
acquaintances for any extended period of time. He basically feels alienated
and separate from himself (his own sub-conscious) and, thus, must feel
alienated and separate from all others.
The Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, said "To be vexed at anything which
happens is a separation of ourselves from nature." He was presenting the
macro view that all is one and that, from this macro perspective, there could
be no vexation or anger with anything. It is only when man forgets that he
is macro perfect and all powerful that he feels inadequate, threatened,
abused, fearful, frustrated, angry and sad.
He who forgets his past is doomed to repeat it. To the extent that
man can expand his awareness (both cognitive and affective) of his past, he is
freed from repeating it. If he cannot remember that it made him sick to eat or
drink too much in the past, he will repeat these actions and pay the
consequences, over and over again, Until he can remember. All learning is the
process of learning the past.
If we could remember everything, we would realize our macrocosmic
origin. The soul was once consciously united and one with all souls,
everything, God. some souls became bored. they desired to experience an
imperfect event, an exciting, fearful, pleasurable, painful, carnal event. To
do this, the soul elected, chose, to narrow narrow the focus of it's
consciousness or awareness until it could not remember where it came from or
where it was going. In this state, of self-induced amnesia the soul could
experience pride and exaltation over others because it had forgotten that it
was one with all.
in this state of amnesia the soul could perceive other souls as
enemies because it viewed itself as separate from other souls. Like the mad
paranoic who thinks his fingers are trying to strangle him, because he has
forgotten that he controls them, the souls had forgotten they were all
powerful and, from a macro view, made all the decisions and caused all the
results or effects. Since they had forgotten their greater selves' power,
they were doomed to live in an unbalanced, imperfect, micro world where no one
could remember his past lives and, thus, no one could foresee the future. No
one can see the end of their journey if his vision is limited to only a tiny
part of the whole journey. No one can make sense of the jig saw puzzle if he
can see only a few of the millions of pieces.
All the pieces of the puzzle, past and future, are hidden in our own
minds. However, only the relatively wise souls have relearned to expand their
consciousness, or awareness, in order to remember more of the past and future
and, thus, see more pieces of the cosmic puzzle.
The great problem of life is to "know thyself." If we could
completely know ourselves, we would be able to remember every life and every
experience back to the beginning-the creation of our souls. However, long
before attain this macro awareness we would have freed ourselves from the
cycle of birth and death associated with these unwieldy physical forms called
bodies. Before attaining total macro awareness we will have experienced an
awareness of the infinite series of dimensions of the whole
microcosmic-macrocosmic cyclic continuum. According to macro philosophy we
all must and we all shall consciously experience everything, and thus gain
total macro awareness.
SUGGESTED READING
1. CAYCE, H.L. "VENTURE INWARD", N.Y.: HARPER AND ROW 1964
2. CERMINERA, G., "MANY MANSIONS,"N.Y.: WM SLOAN AND ASSOC. 1950
3. FROMM, ERICH, " THE ART OF LOVING," N. Y. HARPER AND ROW, 1956
4 SEYLE, H., "THE STRESS OF LIFE," N.Y.: MCGRAW HILL 1956
5. SUGRUE, THOMAS, "THERE IS A RIVER," N.Y. HOLT AND CO. 1945
6. "THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE-NEW TESTAMENT," N.Y.: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1961
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957.4 | The Micro View | REGENT::WAGNER | | Mon Jan 23 1989 11:10 | 354 |
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CHAPTER 3
THE MICRO VIEW
The micro view is narrow, shallow, and most of all, limited in time. All
human problems are caused by micro views. It is the shallow micro view that
divides mankind in terms of skin color, for micro man can see no deeper into
his fellow man or himself than the surface. Since he is not aware of himself
at a deeper level, he cannot see more deeply into others. Because he is
divided and alienated from himself, he is alienated from others. Value
judgments, such as good or bad, beautiful or ugly, valuable or worthless, are
always determined by the frame of reference or perspective of the beholder
and "To the pure in heart-all is pure."
"A house divided cannot long endure." This applies not only to
individuals but to whole societies. Let's take a look at the consequences of
the micro view in our society. The first and most important social
institution of any society is the family for it molds the basic character
traits of all its new members.
Historically, the egocentric view of paramount loyalty to one's own
self was tempered by teaching loyalty to the family, which was measured by
degrees of blood kinship. While micro man has paid lip service to the
mystical concept of the spiritual brotherhood of all men, he has never felt
the true meaning of this sub-macro concept and, thus, has never been able to
practice it.
However, micro man has been able to learn a lesser ethnocentric
loyalty to his tribe, his society, his culture, and his nation. Thus, micro
man has learned to identify with those, who on the surface, look, talk, and
believe like himself. It is interesting that many primitive tribal names mean
literally "the People," revealing that those outside the tribe were not really
human and could justly be treated in a non-human fashion.
I remember that as a soldier in the Second world War I saw many posters
depicting the Japanese and German soldier as blood-thirsty beasts, and we were
carefully indoctrinated to think of the enemy as a non-human beast deserving
to be destroyed. Of course, this micro view, exhalting "me" and "us" against
"them," has always been the one essential ingredient in any callous,
indifferent, and brutal treatment of others. Selfishness, conflict, and war
are always the products of a micro view.
Psychologists and psychiatrists have long proclaimed that the child
learns his self-concept and his concept of others during his early years in
the family. They have presented many studies to show that early malnutrition
irrevocably damages intellectual growth. Perhaps even more important are the
studies that show the effects of early emotional deprivation. Babies given
completely adequate diets but denied loving care and handling have sickened
and died. More dangerous to society are those who survive early emotional
deprivation but are permanently damaged emotionally and intellectually. No
society can long survive if it has to carry too many of these non-productive
and destructively unbalanced citizens.
It is, however, the complex, interdependent, modern industrial
society, which is most dependent on a high level of emotional and intellectual
stability in its members, that has contributed most to the breakdown of the
family. For the modern urban society has replaced the farm family that
worked and lived together, with an urban family in which often both parents
worked away from the family and frequently spend little time even living
together. Also, the traditional extended family with grandparents and uncles
and aunts living under the same roof has been replaced by the nuclear family
with only the immediate parents and children living together. This, along with
the necessity in modern society for frequent moving around the country, leaves
the nuclear family too often cut off from any permanent roots or lose human
relationships.
While modern society needs larger, well balanced emotional and
intellectual viewpoints, it has actually intensified the micro superficial
viewpoint by ignoring the early emotional and intellectual environment of its
members. While the extended family inculcitated a narrow identity and
loyalty to kinsmen. it still provided for handling and care of children and a
secure long term contact and identification. The answers to the fundamental
questions of who am I, where did I come from, and where am I going, were micro
simple but self evident in the traditional extended family.
It is no accident that our society faces an alienated younger
generation which demonstrates it emotional and intellectual imbalance by
massive revolt against social institutions, such as schools and
governments-but against parents and all older people Hippies and Yippies
and the S.D.S. were the inevitable consequences of a long term identity
crisis due to the failure of the socializing institutions, such as first the
family, then the religious, educational, and government institutions.
how did these institutions fail in socializing new members? Basically,
they failed to practice what they preached. They failed to perform the
functions they were set up to perform!
The family failed to provide the tender loving care and handling of
children. The church preached loving one another and the brotherhood of man
but almost totally failed to practice these concepts. The schools were to
provide intellectually and emotionally maturing courses and teachers which
would prepare the young for satisfying adult lives. Instead, they provided
teachers and courses that too frequently stunted emotional and intellectual
growth and an overall program which was mostly irrelevant to major childhood
needs and almost totally irrelevant to the major adult needs of a modern
society. The government, which was supposed to supply unity and harmony by
developing and administering just laws for all, fostered greater division,
injustice, and inequality by prostituting itself to the few powerful micro men
who controlled it in behalf of their own selfish, vested interests.
Since the family is so crucially important to the success of any
society or nation, surely there should be stringent and carefully planned
rules governing its formation and subsequent operation. In a society that
requires it medical practitioners to pass literally thousands of educational
tests before being certified, the prospective parent is usually required to
pass only two-one for age and the other for syphilis. There are no tests for
emotional and intellectual stability in spite of the known fact that parents
must provide these qualities in abundance if children are to learn them and
thus become productive members of society.
A society that permits almost anyone to become a parent and then almost
completely ignores how these parents provide (or do not provide!) for the
emotional and intellectual needs of their children-deserves to perish-and it
shall.
Studies of the lives of most slum and ghetto children are enough to
wring tears from the proverbial stone-but not from micro man. His life is so
narrow and emotionally impoverished that he has no tears left for anyone but
himself. His vision is so narrow that he is truly blind to even his own vital
needs, much less someone else's.
obviously, there are many types of intellectual and emotional
impoverishment. The doctors of Medicine, Law, or Philosophy, who have
received ostensibly the best education our society can provide, constantly
demonstrates the inadequacies of this education in the quality (or lack
thereof) of their micro self-centered lives. Their typical responses to the
truly desperate problems of our society have been either to ignore them or
condemn others for causing them.
If the leaders of a society are unable or unwilling to provide
dedicated and unselfish leadership, chaos is inevitable. But the leaders of
tomorrow are always products of the family and educational system of today.
This vicious cycle seems impossible to overcome, but there is hope. This hope
does not exist from a micro perspective but only from sub-macro and macro
perspectives which will be presented in the next two chapters. However,
before we can go on to larger views, let us first examine some more examples
or consequences in our society of the micro viewpoint.
The harmonious, cooperative, and planned society is impossible for
micro man since basically he subscribes to a self-centered "Me First"
philosophy. He has no higher ideal than satisfying his own micro needs and
always in the long run, at the expense of others. The basic altruistic ideal
of Christianity depicted in the life of Christ-self sacrifice for the good of
others-is blasphemy and idiocy to micro man. It is this narrow, self centered
micro philosophy, which begins with the micro family, that produces all the
ills that flesh is heir to.
As a social psychologist I have spent many years reading and studying
about the social institutions of society and their interdependent structures
and functions. However, I always found the family, our culture's basic
primary group, the most interesting of these institutions in terms of cultural
transmission or, from another point of view, brainwashing the next generation.
Some of my counselees need help in learning to cope with their children,
their parents, or their spouse, but the vast majority need help in learning to
cope with the destructive effects of the micro family on personality
development.
The micro family begins when two emotionally and intellectually
immature persons form a neurotic dependency relationship dedicated to
supplying immediate gratification of temporary self-centered needs. Children
of this union are either unwanted accidents, or serve to enhance the self
centered needs of the parents. In either case, the children of micro parents
are never valued for themselves but always as objects to be manipulated for the
greater satisfaction of the parent's micro needs. Because micro man is
divided and uncomfortable with himself he can never feel comfortable for any
length of time with others. Therefore, the closer he lives with another
person the more conflict is generated since the pursuit of self-centered need
always produces conflict with others.
Thus, children born of micro parents enter an environment of both
covert and overt hostility and disharmony. With the advent of children the
mother can usually no longer work, and the family income goes down just when
financial needs go up. No micro mother has been educated to function as child
nurse, child psychologist, child teacher, plus cleaning woman, wash woman,
cook and nutrition expert, plus economy shopping expert,chauffeur,husband
entertainer and mistress. Locked into this impossibly demanding life it is no
wonder that she becomes frustrated and fights with her dissatisfied husband.
The husband is dissatisfied with his wife because he feels trapped in a
marriage with an unhappy complaining woman who has neither time nor energy to
entertain him, support his insecure ego, and satisfy his sexual needs.
Unconsciously both husband and wife displace their hostility and frustration
upon the children.
As for the children of these micro parents, they are soon overwhelmed
by an all-pervading sense of failure and inadequacy to cope with the
impossible demands of their frustrated parents. The more the children try not
to cry, not to make messes, and not to disturb Mother and Father, the more
their own frustration builds and the more they do disturb their parents. It
is not long before the children are as emotionally and intellectually crippled
as their parents. Then, as soon as possible, the children escape this
frustrating environment to get married themselves and perpetuate the crippling
cycle.
What are the child's needs that the micro family fail to supply?
first-tender loving care. Second-richly varied and stimulating humans to
learn symbolic (verbal and numerical) thinking and a life philosophy with a
positive and adequate self concept. All three needs must be met in order to
produce an emotionally and intellectually adequate human. If the micro family
fails in providing for these needs, how about the schools?
By and large, the major function of U.S. education in the past 50
years has been to inculcitate middle class values and act a a gate keeper for
social success. In general, the grade schools have been preparing children
for high schools and high schools have been preparing children for college.
The irony of the situation was that the vast majority did not go on to
college and, thus, received secondary consideration and an extremely limited
education in preparation for a successful life. Those who went on to college
and eventually graduated received a powerful middle class seal of approval-the
college degree.
Along with the college degree went the tacit assumption that the holder
had demonstrated outstanding skill in pleasing the middle class guardians of
the social order-teachers. To a much lesser, but still significant, extent
the high school diploma was valuable in obtaining this same sort of social
prestige and economic opportunities.
however, the supreme irony of the high school diploma and the college
degree was that neither of these ultimate educational awards required any
training or knowledge in the one most important area-human behavior. The
wisest the human race has ever produced have all agreed that the most
important knowledge is-self knowledge. "Know thyself" was the first
commandment of the ancient wise men. But, instead, our educational system has
for one generation after another, placed its major emphasis on coercing
children into memorizing vast amount of facts. mostly irrelevant. this rote
memorization of facts is not only irrelevant to greater self knowledge, but
it is actually destructive to the desire for learning.
How well I remember the many hours devoted to memorizing geometric
theorems, declensions of Latin nouns and the endless historical dates and
trivia. none of these highly revered (by my teachers) facts held any interest
for me nor have they subsequently proven to be on any practical value. The
vast majority of my educational activities, deemed so important by my teachers
during the 21 years of my formal education, have proven worthless and totally
irrelevant in preparing me for a happy, healthy, well balanced life. In fact,
the tremendous amount's of time and energy devoted to learning this nonsense
drastically interfered with my attempts to learn about myself and my fellow
man.
Yet, today, millions of school children throughout the world are still
being coerced to memorize irrelevant facts so they can pass irrelevant tests
which lead to what--a higher educational level of memorized irrelevant facts in
order to pass irrelevant tests which lead to more of the same. It is no
accident that so many high school and college students are revolted with and.
therefore, revolting against our mostly irrelevant educational system.
Not long ago my 8th grade daughter was asked to memorize all the major
rivers of Europe and Asia and the capitols of all the Eurasian states as well
as our 50 states, their capitols, and their state parks! She was asked at the
same time to struggle with a foreign language and the complexities of modern
math and algebra. However, I did honestly inform her that during my ten years
as a successful business man and later as a college professor I have NEVER
encountered a situation in which I needed that type of knowledge? How many
of us EVER need that type of knowledge? What a gross waste of those precious
learning years.
By and large our teachers are selected for their ability to conform to
the narrow rigidities of our educational system. They are never selected on
the basis of a demonstrated ability to be open and loving, to be deeply aware
of themselves and others, or to be emotional and intellectually stimulating
and well balanced. On the contrary, the vast majority of our teachers are
the rigid self-alienated products of our rigid self-alienated educational
system. Thus, the three basic needs of our children (love, exploration, and
intellectually stimulating human beings) are almost completely denied our
children by a micro educational system.
For years micro man, with his limited self-centered view of life, has
paid little attention to the lack of quality or equality of opportunity
provided by our educational system. Today he is reaping the consequences of
this neglect. one example (hundreds could be cited) has been the deliberate
policy of southern white vested interests to deny adequate education to
black and poor whites in order to insure a cheap labor supply. This was of no
concern to citizens of other parts of the country. However, with the vast
migration of rural southern blacks and poor whites to northern urban areas,
the white north became concerned.
Human beings who have been exploited and emotionally and intellectually
crippled make exceedingly poor citizens. It is no accident that the crime rate
and social welfare rate have been rising so swiftly. These crippled human
beings are literally unable to cope with the highly complex demands of our
modern industrial urban society. What is the solution? There is no solution-
at least-there is no micro solution.
Micro man distrusts his government officials-and rightly so. He knows
that they are just like himself-usually willing to serve only their own micro
needs. Let us look at micro government and see how the micro policy of serving
short term selfish needs must inevitably cause ever greater problems for micro
man.
The thousands and thousands of small independent governmental units
throughout our land have sown chaos through their short sightedness such
as-stubborn refusal to cooperate with other government units. A single large
metropolitan area may have over 100 police departments-all locally controlled
and jealously refusing to share facilities or cooperate with each other. This
same large metropolitan area may have over 1000 separate taxing districts.
Each state has such a vast number of varied and different laws that a lawyer
in one state is not qualified to practice in another state. Where divorce is
easy in one state it is almost impossible to obtain in another. where a
certain action is deemed a crime by one state, it is not by another.
for many years towns and cities have dumped raw sewage into rivers in
spite of the fact that they obtained most of their drinking water from these
same rivers and have had to spend more and more money on water purifying
stations. Many cities complained bitterly about upriver cities polluting
their water but turned right around and dumped their own raw sewage in the
river, thus, refusing to cooperate with their own down river neighbors.
Because micro man refuses to cooperate with his fellow man he has
polluted his rivers and lakes until their beauty and wildlife have mostly been
destroyed. He is now in the process of polluting his atmosphere until he
himself will be destroyed-unless he learns to cooperate. But from a limited
micro point of view it just makes no sense to cooperate-let the other guy
cooperate.
As for taxes, everyone agrees they are unequally applied, and when it
is possible for hundreds of our countries richest people to pay almost no
taxes this inequality is blatantly apparent. Certainly a property tax system
which encourages ghetto owners not to improve their property is short sited,
to say the least. Then there's the strangling tradition that local education
must be supported by local property taxes, which leaves poor areas unable to
supply their children with even the most minimal educational opportunities.
However, as has been noted, these poor children will move to the richer areas
when they grow up and due to their grossly inadequate training, become public
charges and public problems for the richer areas.
our Federal government of checks and balances was set up under the
correct assumption that micro man is not to be trusted to do anything but serve
his own narrow selfish interests. Thus, we have a House of Representatives
divided against itself in terms of equal representation of all the local
vested interests within each state. Because micro man worships money and
property it was left to the States to determine who should vote and to
gerrymander legislative districts so that vested interests could control the
government. Thus, the poor were, for all practical purposes disfranchised.
To lead this government we have had a President who is elected by an
Electoral college whose members are appointed by the vested interests because
these same vested interests could not trust the poor to elect a President.
And, of course, the Supreme court members are appointed by this president and
approved by the Senate.
Our Federal Government is the best system ever designed to control
micro man by enshrining micro selfish interests. In the long run, however, it
has not worked, and is not working, to provide a harmonious and healthy
society-because micro government run by micro man and dedicated to the
protection and pursuit of micro pleasure and micro property does not care
about others or the future.
The success of any government is totally dependent on the degree of
self awareness and enlightenment of its citizens. This, of course, is true
for all social institutions and all human relationships. Micro man, from his
limited perspective, sees himself as separate and alienated from all others.
Micro man must be true to his vision-his god-his own micro self.
Thus micro man can only produce a micro government and a micro society
unconsciously dedicated to selfishness and conflict. Since micro man is
filled with fear and self hate, due to feelings of inadequacy and weakness, he
likes to forget and deny this fear of weakness by triumphing over others
either actually or vicariously. Killing animals for sport is one way. While
micro man does not like being hurt by others he enjoys blood sports in which
others are hurt and even killed. The bloodier the boxing match the more he
likes it. Most hunting done today is killing for the love of killing-not for
food and survival.
Micro man likes guns for they help a weak person feel strong. He likes
violence, when not painfully directed against himself, so his movies and TV
programs are filled with violence and his national past time is either
fighting a war or preparing for one.
Micro man is paranoid. He is suspicious, to some degree of everyone
he encounters. To protect his material possessions (his body and other
property) he will maim and kill others in self righteous joy. The
congressional medal of Honor, the highest award of the United States is for
bravery in battle and for spectacularly killing large numbers of our fellow
man temporarily called the enemy.
The closest micro man ever gets to feeling god-like power is when he
is hurting, destroying, and killing others. Only then can he most
successfully deny and hide from his own weakness and self hate, for his micro
society will then reward him with medals,fame, and glory. If micro man cannot
hurt and kill others in a spectacular fashion himself, he can see movies which
help him temporarily identify and become one with the likes of Jesse James,
Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde or James bond-to name just a few micro heroes.
The micro viewpoint is always, in the long run, self destructive
because it is a massive denial of reality-of the interdependence of all
life-of the indivisible oneness of the macrocosmic whole.
The selfish micro viewpoint, limited in time and space, must
eventually give away to a larger perspective. Why must this take place? In
the next chapter I will attempt to answer this question along with examining
the nature and consequences of the sub-macro viewpoint.
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| Note: The authors projection as to how society will be during the major part
of the Aquarian Age seems to have a serious flaw in that it seems to be
somewhat out of context with macro philosophy. Never-the-less, the concept of
Macro-philosophy and the sub-macro view itself seems sound enough.
Ernie
CHAPTER 4
THE SUB-MACRO VIEW
The sub-macro perspective sees each man as an immortal soul containing
memory of every thought, action and experience from the beginning of its
creation, which was prior to the creation of the dimensions of time and space.
The soul is not infinite but since it transcends time and space it can never
be fully understood or comprehended by the finite micro-mind and perspective.
This soul or sub-macro self contains the micro self which is limited
by time and space. Perhaps one of the best analogies depicting the
relationship of the sub-macro self to the micro self was presented by
Shakespeare when he said:"All the world is a stage and all the men and women
merely players." Actually, the micro self is a role or player composed of a
limited human personality encased in, and bound by, a physical and astral body
(this latter body being unknown to almost all of mankind incarnated at
present). The soul plays many roles and, as part of its evolution, experiences
the micro dimensions of the universe.
Like any good actor, while playing a role the soul temporarily
forgets other roles it has played and even forgets that it is playing a role.
In other words, in order to experience and learn the micro dimensions(as it
must ultimately learn all dimensions in order to be a complete companion of
God) the soul chose to temporarily limit its awareness by selecting a
physical body with intelligence so limited that this micro person would be
totally unaware that he or she is a temporary creation of his or her own soul
or sub-macro self.
Since every micro being, by definition, has limited awareness of the
nature and origin of his being, he cannot possibly understand or really accept
that he is the temporary creation of his own soul. Thus, if micro man attempts
to read this book he can only scoff at what must appear to his limited mind as
being incredible nonsense.
However, from a sub-macro view there are no simple dichotomies of
right-wrong, black-white, macro-micro, but only continuum concepts. Thus,
from a larger perspective one sees that the parts or roles the soul plays vary
in degrees of awareness from ultimate micro to ultimate macro. It must
experience all roles sooner or later, although the time spent playing any
specific role depends on how long it takes that particular soul to master all
the lessons offered by that role.
Therefore, it follows that every human falls somewhere along the
continuum of greater or lesser awareness of his sub-macro and macro origins.
As the micro self was created by the sub-macro self or soul, the sub-macro
self was, in turn, created by the macro self or God.-and for exactly the same
purpose-to experience the dimensions of awareness.
Thus, the human being who has considerable sub-macro awareness knows
that all other human are souls temporarily playing micro parts and, most
importantly, he can remember to some extent, his own past roles (lives).
Naturally, the advanced sub-macro person cannot condemn or become angry with
anyone regardless of what any person may do, for he knows "they know not what
they do." He knows this because he remembers when he played the same ignorant
role. He knows too that all sin is the product of micro thinking, called
selfishness, which is the product of TEMPORARY amnesia or unawareness.
Because we are all souls temporarily playing micro parts, those who
scoff at the ideas presented in this book are merely playing perfectly and
unconscious role. They will not be condemned by any evolved sub-macro being
anymore than a playwright would condemn actors for playing perfectly the parts
he had created.
As Shakespeare also said, even in one lifetime we play many roles
(parts). the lovable babe may become the pimply faced, rebellious,
self-centered teenager, and later may become a handsome dignified judge, and
much later a senile drooling old man. In my own present life, I have played
the role of student and teacher, son and father, athlete and scholar, soldier
and civilian, brave man and cowardly man, wise man and foolish man, criminal
and policeman, married and divorced man, lazy and industrious, loving and
hating, and many more. What is the value of all these parts? I am more aware
now than I was, and because I will continue to play many parts I will be more
aware next year than I am now.
The purpose of the soul in playing many parts (many of them
exceedingly painful) is not to acquire greater intellectual knowledge, but to
acquire greater self awareness or wisdom. Actually micro man's pride in his
intellectual knowledge is one of his major obstacles in obtaining wisdom.
History reveals that the leading intellectuals of all micro times and places
have laughed at, ignored, imprisoned, burned, or crucified the wise men of
their time. The charge of heresy is always the charge of micro man who prides
himself on his knowledge of what is right and wrong-proper and improper-wise
and foolish.
However, the self-righteous, intellectual snob is playing a very
difficult and ultimately very painful role-I know, for I've played it more
than once-but from a sub-macro view this role can be enjoyed, appreciated, and
sympathized with just as one would respond to a perfectly performed play. And
from a sub-macro view we know that no soul will play this role too many times
because it is just too wearing. Why? Because the role is produced and
maintained by micro beliefs which produce massive insecurity and fear of new
and different ideas and experiences. Then, of course, this fear and
insecurity, produce rigid, narrow, prisonlike lives in order to avoid new and
different ideas and experiences. Altogether a miserable existence.
Thus, the micro view incorporated in a micro role is, in the long
run,self destroying and will be given up by the soul because of sheer pain and
boredom. It would, for example, be extremely painful and boring for an adult
mind to be imprisoned in the body of a new born baby and required to play this
role after having previously fully learned and experienced it.
From a narrow time span, human behavior sometimes appears to be totally
devoid of any learning. Examples of this are the seemingly endless human
fear, anger, hate and wars, or persons afflicted with alcoholism and drug
addiction for many years who finally die of their affliction. Actually, from
the larger sub-macro perspective, it is seen that the soul chooses to play
extremely narrow micro roles relatively few times and for relatively few years
compared to the vast amount of time it devotes to sub-macro roles.
However, in the relatively short time of recorded history (five or six
thousand years) most sub-macro roles were being played in other dimensions
than this earth one. From micro view this would, naturally, seem impossible.
Since micro man has forgotten his infinite past, he views with alarm not only
his own future but that of the whole human race.
Of course, from the short term point of view micro man is right about
the future-it is filled with gigantic catastrophes that will ultimately destroy
every micro role and life. But from a sub-macro view that is good because it
meant the end of micro suffering, selfishness, and sins. In other words "The
meek shall inherit the Earth." (Matthew 5:5)
Another sub-macro way of thinking about the future is to view this
earth as a school which, in the past, has been devoted mainly to kindergarten
and the primary grades but which will soon be redecorated, cleaned up and made
into an intermediate school for more advanced students. The beginning
students think it's terrible that they are going to lose their school. They
are not aware that in the future they will reincarnate and become one of the
advanced students using this new new/old school.
What are some of the sub-macro concepts that will be taught in this
new school-the sub-macro world of the future?
A fundamental sub-macro concept states that all learning is
remembering, since the macro mind already knows all. Only at sub-macro levels
of awareness is anything new possible. These levels were created so that
souls can experience the excitement and challenge of novelty, newness, problem
solving and all learning.
Another concept will be that this world is a school. Instead of the
micro concept of learning, in which human learning capacity reaches a peak at
about the age of 25 and from then on diminishes, learning will be viewed as
forever cumulative. The micro learning curve presented by micro psychologists
shows that learning ability for the average person begins to deteriorate at
about age 25 (see fig. 1).
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The micro learning curve shows that learning is very rapid in the early years
and then begins to quickly taper off. The reason for this is that it takes a
while for the child to learn (or remember) that it is bad to fail (that is ,to
be rejected or look silly or stupid in the eyes of others). Once he begins
learning this, he starts trying to avoid failure experience by limiting his
explorative learning experiences. The more the mind focuses on failure and
how terrible it would be to experience failure, the more energy is devoted to
negative fearful avoidance behavior and the more rigid and less spontaneous
the behavior.
By the time micro man has entered his middle twenties, he has learned
to be so fearful of being rejected or looking silly and stupid in the eyes of
others that his rate of learning is decelerating. The more he attempts to
avoid failure, the more his mind focuses on possible failure situations and
the more failure prone he becomes. This vicious circle eventually reduces
learning experiences so greatly and produces so much stress that micro man
literally dies from attempt to avoid failure. He wears himself out by
refusing to learn (remember) the necessary survival behavior.
However the sub-macro learning curve (see Fig 2) is actually a series
of ascending and descending cumulative curves which demonstrate that , while
nothing is ever forgotten by the sub-conscious mind, insight occurs only when
there are sufficient experiences to produce the critical insight level or
prepotent need and predisposing frame of reference. The limited micro view
sees things as forever getting worse or forever getting better but never
realizing the cause of things getting better or worse.
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Life, as viewed from micro man's limited perspective is often viewed
as bad and getting worse. So micro man tries to cling to the past and avoid
new, possibly painful, experiences. In this way micro man tries to maximize
pleasure and avoid pain. however, all life is composed of both pleasure and
pain, up and down, black and white, ugly and beautiful and man can only
experience one to the extent he experiences the other. for example, pleasure
is meaningful only in relation to pain, and thus, to the extent that one has
experienced pain one can experience (be aware of) pleasure.
Only from a micro view is pain bad and something to be avoided at all
costs. From the sub-macro view it is obvious that the more one tries to avoid
the inevitable the more frustrated, fearful, and angry one must become. Since
all learning, all life, is a series of ups and downs, pleasure and pain,
ugliness and beauty, it is obviously impossible to successfully avoid for
very long, the other half of life. Thus, from the sub-macro perspective,
life is never viewed as terrible and horrible but always as interesting and
challenging. For pain or ugliness or even pleasure is only terrible or
horrible if it is believed to be forever. Hell is terrible because it is pain
and ugliness forever. Heaven would be Hell if all one could experience is the
pleasure of playing on a harp or viewing the same beautiful scene. Sub-macro
man knows that Hell is the product of micro thinking (trying to avoid half
of life) and Heaven is the product of Macro thinking-accepting all as macro
perfect.
It is impossible for micro men to understand that ancient sub-macro
beings who said "resist not evil" or "When rape is inevitable lie back and
enjoy it." Recently it has been recognized by the medical profession that
the attempt to resist what micro man views as evil or unpleasant experiences
produces stress which wears out our bodies and causes premature death to all
micro men (Hans Seyle,"The Stress of Life").
Life is never a hopeless and unsolvable problem for sub-macro man. He
knows that all learning is the product of sufficient desire or will (prepotent
desire) and sufficient state of readiness or preparedness (predisposing frame
of reference). When a student desires to learn Algebra more than anything
(prepotent desire) and has sufficiently prepared himself by first learning
addition and subtraction, multiplication and division (predisposing frame of
reference) there is no problem-learning takes place. The greatest sub-macro
being of our planet stated this same idea by saying "Ask and you shall
receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened, for
everyone who asks-receives." (Matthew 7:7)
Of course this is exactly micro man's problem- he DOES get everything
he desires and prepares himself for (this will be discussed at greater length
in the chapter on contemplation). But when he gets it-he often finds that
before long he doesn't want it anymore. He is disappointed because
nothing remains the same. He does not realize that one cannot have pleasure
without first experiencing pain, since all life is an ever continuing cycle
of pleasure, pain, awaking-sleeping,light-dark, life-death, etc.
One example of micro man getting what he desires is the rich
millionaire who has all the possessions that micro man worships but lives in
fear that he will lose them. He knows that others will take away his
possessions any way they can. He knows that he is weak and inadequate without
his great possessions. The more he has pursued great possessions the more
rigid, narrow, and self centered his life had become. The curse of King Midas
was deadly boredom due to the loss of variety and balance-all was gold. Hell
is ALL gold-all pleasure-forever-just what micro man thinks he wants most.
Obviously he is doomed to disappointment.
When micro man's disappointment becomes great enough to produce a
sub-macro prepotent desire and sub-macro predisposing frame of reference, he
develops wisdom. For all learning is the product of failure, pain, and
dissatisfaction. No one gives up a satisfying, successful behavior pattern
(life situation) unless he believes he can find more satisfaction doing
something else. Thus, the greater pain and dissatisfaction with any
experience, the greater the motivation to learn how to improve the situation.
However,micro solutions to pain and dissatisfaction are successful only
temporarily and, in the long run, produce even more pain and dissatisfaction.
These micro solutions have been called psychological defense mechanisms, which
deny reality. For example, repressing or forgetting, blaming others and
fantasy, along with alcohol, drugs and tranquilizers all reduce awareness of
pain or dissatisfaction but do not remove the cause, for the cause is micro
thinking which produces maladaptive behavior. When micro man has tried all
the ways to deny reality, pain, and his own responsibility for causing it,
and completely and totally failed, he develops a prepotent desire and a
sub-macro predisposing frame of reference. In other words he asks for help
from his Creator-his own soul, greater mind, or sub-macro self. And "Everyone
who asks-receives."
When the student is ready (and willing) the solution to any problem
becomes obvious. For when one asks his Creator-the Sub-macro self-he is
contacting his own greater mind, unlimited by time and space,and, thus,
indivisible from the universal mind (macro self) which knows and is aware of
everything. Thus, no problem is unsolvable when man gives up micro solutions
and asks for sub-macro or macro solutions. In other words,all problems are
solved by sufficient expansion of awareness or perspective which inevitably
occur, for micro solutions only produce more pain in the long run,and, at
last, total failure. It is this total micro failure that produces sub-macro
man.
P=r+d is the sub-macro formula for all learning or expansion of
awareness. In this formula P stands for the degree or size of the perspective
(awareness), while r stands for the degree of readiness and d stands for the
amount of desire When r = a predisposing frame of reference,, and d = a
prepotent desire, then P = the solution to the problem (sufficiently expanded
perspective). THIS FORMULA IS THE KEY TO MACRO PHILOSOPHY.
It logically follows from the above that THE SOLUTION TO ANY PROBLEM
IS THE FUNCTION OF THE SIZE OF ONE'S PERSPECTIVE. Thus, all problems can and
will be solved when we have learned to expand our self awareness (perspective)
sufficiently. Since the micro self controls the over-all evolutionary law of
the universe, neither the sub-macro self or micro self can deviate beyond its
creator's over-all plan. Thus, micro man must evolve into macro man.
Before discussing this ultimate macro view, it is appropriate to look
at a few sub-macro life styles.
When a majority of sub-macro beings are incarnated on this 3rd planet
from our sun, the social institutions of the family, government, church,
business, and education will be very different from their present micro forms.
During the next two thousands years of the Aquarian Age more and more
sub-macro beings will incarnate until a sub-macro culture and society will
permeate human relationships in all parts of the planet. A relatively more
detailed projection of this future sub-macro society is presented in Chapter 15
and in our book, 2150, "The Macro Love Story."
Obviously, the micro family is doomed to perish by its own hand.
Since it has exhalted and perpetuated the we/other divisions which have caused
all the many ethnocentric conflicts and wars, the micro family is just too
costly in human life and happiness to be continued. Just as we now forbid
children to play with matches or lethal weapons, in the future micro man will
be forbidden to raise children and highly restricted in giving birth to them.
Since the most crucial learning periods occur in the first six years of
childhood, all children under the age of six will be cared for by the wisest
and most loving members of society.
Formal education will be practical and appropriate to the person's
evolutionary stage of development and will last to the age of thirty.
Education will emphasize physical, mental, and spiritual development. Each of
these areas will be viewed as equal parts of a balanced whole which is always
controlled by the mind. It will be recognized that the sub-macro purpose of
all souls is the expansion of self awareness until complete macro awareness
is attained. Thus, both the formal education period of the first 30 year's
and the informal education period of all the following years will be devoted
to expanding self awareness. It will be recognized that maximizing the
quality of human relationships increases the number of learning experiences
which, in turn, accelerates the expansion of self-awareness.
Since sub-macro man views all humans as spiritual brothers and
sisters, he cannot engage in war or kill anyone for any reason-not even to
save his own physical life. From the larger sub-macro perspective, past lives
and past roles are remembered, therefore, sub-macro man knows the truth of
such sayings as, "For whatever measure you deal out to others, it shall be
dealt back to you in return," or "As you sow so shall you reap." This is why
macro man always lives the Golden Rule.
In a society in which everyone almost always treats others as himself
there can be no poverty, malnutrition, or starvation, very little crime or
selfish-exploitative economic activities, no corrupt governments or churches,
no prisons to foster micro views by segregating micro beings together, and no
riots, rebellions, or wars.
Since from a macro perspective all is one, the more evolved sub-macro
beings will live in harmony with all living creatures. No living creature will
be killed, for it will not be a threat or irritant to high sub-macro man. Nor
will any living creature be needed for food.
When mankind has evolved to the point where he can remember his past
and see "The Kingdom of God which lies within," then there can be no divisive
religions or religious sects. In fact, there can be only one religion in
which all men and women are their own priests who communicate easily and
often with their own higher self-God-the macro self.
SUGGESTED READING
1. Kelsey, Denys & Grant, Joan, "MAny Lifetimes, N.Y. Doubleday, 1967
2. Levi, "The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ," Los Angeles: Devorss &
Co., 1964.
3. Seyle, Hans, "The STress of Life," N.Y.: McGraw Hill, 1956
4. ___________,"The Divine Compass," Santa Barbara, California:Rowney press
1957.
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| CHAPTER 5
THE MACRO VIEW
From one frame of reference any perspective that is larger than another
one is macro in relation to the smaller (micro) one. In this sense all great
innovators have demonstrated macro, or greater, vision than their
contemporaries. the Wright brothers could see vast future possibilities for
airplanes. However, people around the Wright Brothers asked sensible micro
questions such as: "What do you want with this dangerous and crazy flying
machine? Horses are safer, cheaper, and far more efficient transportation,"
all of which were true in 1903.
The man with the greater vision is not only able to envision that
there COULD be a telephone, but also the ways in which society could be changed
by the use of the telephone. From a micro view these visions of the future
are ridiculous fantasy and a terrible waste of time--all true from a short
term micro point of view.
It is important to recognize that a person can have larger macro
viewpoints in one or two areas and still have very limited micro viewpoints in
other areas. Thoreau could grasp the idea of reincarnation yet scorn the idea
of a trans-Atlantic cable saying, "Man will never need to communicate across
oceans faster than sailing a ship."
Thus, a macro viewpoint may be held by a micro man who can be labeled
micro because of the vast majority of his life perspectives are extremely
limited. Sub-macro man is not bound by any micro perspective. By this I mean
that his major life style is one of patience, kindness, understanding, and
and love. Sub-macro man can and does momentarily experience micro thoughts
and feelings such as anger, fear, sorrow but he never gets caught in these
perspectives and their resultant emotional binges. He never forgets more than
momentarily, that he and all others are immortal souls created by his own
macro self.
Micro man lives in a selfish life dedicated to exalting the micro self;
sub-macro man exalts everything (God-the macro self), since from a macro
perspective he sees everything as perfect. By this I mean in perfect balance,
with all positive and negative aspects of the universe in perfect harmonious
balance.
Perhaps one of the most aggravating and difficult aspects for micro
man to comprehend is the serenity, calmness, and loving acceptance of any
person who is viewing the world through a macro perspective. While no soul
incarnated on this planet has maintained a macro perspective during the whole
lifetime on Earth, many have attained momentary macro vision-a few such as
Laotzu Guatama, and Jesus maintained macro perspectives longer than any others.
While caught up in the ecstasy of macro vision these men demonstrated macro
love-perfect acceptance that all is one-all is God-all is perfect. This state
of macro awareness is always accompanied by a joyous but serene composure which
baffles micro man who sees so much unbalanced evil and misery.
While macro man often profess great belief in a macro-cosmic God, he
cannot possibly effectively believe in something that he cannot know,
experience, or even dimly imagine-with his micro perspective. Of course, it
is not what people say but what they do that demonstrates their true level of
evolutionary awareness-"By their fruits you shall know them." Matthew 7:20
Yet, micro man, regardless of what he says, is always filled with
doubts, uncertainties, and a jumble of fundamental metaphysical questions.
What is the nature of man, of truth, of evil, of beauty, of love, of God, of
justice, of marriage, of eternity, etc. Throughout history, learned
intellectuals have been supplying answers to these questions, answers that
have been profoundly clever and profoundly platitudinous but never truly
satisfying to micro man. However, the answers of the intellectuals did
provide momentary satisfaction, which was more than the answers of the wise
men. Answers such as:" you must lose your life to gain it"; "You must give up
all possessions to attain happiness"; "There is nothing good or bad but
thinking it so makes it so"; and "all is Maya-illusion."
obviously the above statements are nonsense from a micro perspective.
Yet, from a large enough perspective they are true and perfectly sensible.
Certainly from a sub-macro perspective all death is birth into another life or
state of awareness. It is only by giving up anxious clinging to all
possessions that one can free himself from fear and anxious inadequacies.
Of course, "goodness or badness" truth or falsehood, beauty or ugliness are
states of mind produced by the direction (positive or negative) and size of
one's life perspective. Finally, from a larger perspective, all micro reality
is an illusion. For example, the most solid substances are, from a different
frame of reference merely tenuous, ever-changing electrical vibrations
sometimes called neutrons, electrons, and protons.
In spite of the inability of my micro and sub-macro perspectives to
completely comprehend macro reality, I am writing this chapter about a macro
viewpoint. however, I do realize that I cannot capture in words the nature of
macrocosmic awareness. How do I even know it exists? Because I can remember
some of the brief glimpses that I, like every soul, have had of our
macrocosmic self.
Intellect proves nothing. It is only my experience of God-of
macrocosmic awareness that proves(to me) my macro existence. As a youth I was
shocked to discover that my beloved science could prove nothing; that it could
only accumulate evidence which increased the statistical probability that any
hypothesis was true.
Those who are looking for a scientific proof of the macro-cosmic nature
of man are doomed to disappointment. In this book I am not attempting to
offer proof or to convince anyone of anything that is not, upon reflection,
contemplation, and meditation, obvious to them. I am offering ideas,
perspectives or frames of reference for the reader to check out for himself.
Here is my attempt to describe a monistic microcosm in our micro dualistic
language.
In the beginning there was no beginning and in the end there will be no
end--only a beginning. God, the macro self, always desired to be and yet not
to be-to experience all and nothing (all the degrees of experiential awareness
between microcosmic infinite nothingness and macrocosmic infinite allness).
Why did our macro self desire anything? Because the ultimate nature
of macro awareness is desire. This infinite desire is both positive and
negative, attraction and repulsion, and, in perfect balance, this produces
perfect joy in all macro experiences-all macro awareness.
All is mind composed of an infinite number of levels of awareness of
the macro self. At all levels there is cyclic progression and regression or
existence and non-existence, of birth and death, of waking and sleeping, of
beginning and ending, of evolution and devolution. All is change, and this
principle never changes. anything that exists also does not exist and this is
paradoxical only from a perspective which is less than totally macro. From
this ultimate macro perspective there are no positive or negative aspects, no
beginning or ending.
A universal symbol for this infinite macrocosmic whole, which is the
macro self, has always been the perfect circle. Everything is included in
this circle and there is no outside or inside, up or down, except from a
limited perspective.
There are fittingly, two symbols for the sub-macro division of the
macrocosm. The first symbol is the continuously curving line that perfectly
divides the circle into two halves called yin and yang by the followers of
Laotzu, Chinese founder of Taoism. The other sub-macro symbol is a small
circle divided by the curving yin-yang line within a larger circle. The
divided circle symbolizes that the soul (sub-macro self) is also composed of
both positive and negative polarities just as the macro self.
The soul from this perspective is seen to be contained within the
macro self and to be an indivisible part of the macro self. However, just as
the sub-macro self is contained within the macro self, so is the micro self
contained within the sub-macro self.
From a sub-macro view the soul was created by macro self, and since it
had a beginning it will have an ending. From the ultimate macro view there is
no soul and yet there are souls which had a beginning and, thus, must have an
ending. As an example: When I am thinking of my whole body I am not thinking
of its individual parts. My finger is an individual part of me but it is not
me. Yet when I look at my finger it is me.
The sub-macro purpose, or soul purpose, is to experience all
dimensions and degrees of microcosmic-macrocosmic awareness and, thus,
becoming one with all by experiencing all. Since the macro self was, is, and
always will be experiencing everything and nothing, it obviously has every
purpose and no purpose. To be and not to be, joyously forever, without
beginning or ending is the one purpose. (One might comprehend this as the
macro self operating outside the dimension of time and physical space where
past, present and future is happening "simultaneously"-Ernie)
Macro man is the macro self and, therefore, there is only one macro
man who is simultaneously aware of everything. Not being limited by time and
space permits experiencing joyously the limitations of time and space while at
the same time not being bound by any limitations. This is the macro self and
yet is not the macro self; paradoxes of paradoxes.
Consider what the mystics call a cosmic day and night which is the
duration of time from the beginning of all stars and planets in our universe
to their ending. This is only one cosmic day. It is perfectly balanced by a
cosmic night of the same time length in which there are no stars or
planets-and no souls are aware of existence for they are all sleeping until
the morning of the next cosmic day. Of course, there are an infinite number
of cosmic days and nights.
Does the above paragraph touch off some deep pleasure and delight
within you? If it does, then you are to some degree getting a glimpse of
macrocosmic awareness. The greatest pleasure-the greatest joy-is the
transcendental realization that all is one and all is perfect love-the macro
view.
As I have previously mentioned, macro man is the macro self. However,
from a micro view any sub-macro being would be called macro man. On the other
hand, sub-macro beings recognize that they are micro compared to more highly
evolved beings whom they would call macro. Of course, sub-macro beings
recognize that ultimate macro man is one and indivisible and, thus, all human
souls are micro divisions of the macrocosmic whole. Therefore, the human soul
is always sub-macro (less than macro but not limited by micro dimensions) and
the human body (being created by the soul) is always micro and limited by time
and space. (micro-dimensions).
When my students ask questions about how macro man lives, I know they
are referring to sub-macro beings who are macro from their micro perspective.
I usually respond to this type of question by saying that I do not know how
macro beings live since they live in such high vibration dimensions that I
cannot perceive them.
Often when I talk of macro beings or macro men, I remind my students
that I am referring to high level sub-macro beings who live beyond the
dimensions of my awareness. For a high level sub-macro being to incarnate on
our planet would be like a college professor enrolling in kindergarten.
College professors do not even teach below the college level. Obviously,
kindergarten children have no more contact or communication with college
professors than you and I have with high level sub-macro beings.
While micro man feels inferior to macro beings no macro being (high
level sub-macro) feels himself superior to or better than anyone else. Just as
an adult recognizes that he is more aware than a child, he knows that it is
not a matter of being better or worse than the child, it is only a matter of
awareness. Since all degrees of awareness which are not macro are finite,
then any state of awareness less than macro it only temporary. Thus, all
micro problems of limitation and inadequacy are only momentary and never
perceived as problems from a macro view.
Just as grade schools have generally been taught by college graduates
with only one college degree, the wise men who have been the teachers of micro
men have usually been low level sub-macro beings. Jesus of Nazareth was the
most highly evolved soul ever to incarnate on this planet. He attained high
level sub-macro awareness when he reached Christ Consciousness. His one
commandment (Love one another as I have loved you") is about as understandable
to micro man as E=MC^2 is to kindergarten children.
While this one commandment, the only macro commandment is not
understandable from a a micro view, it is the only permanent solution to all
micro problems. Since perfect performance of this macro commandment requires
total macro awareness, micro man feels it is impossible to perform, and gives
up trying. However, this is like saying if I can't have perfect happiness I
will commit suicide. Which is what micro man does when he refuses to even try
to expand his awareness so that he can, to a greater degree, love his fellow
man.
Obviously what micro man does not realize is that all is really
indivisibly one and, thus, HE CANNOT HATE ORE DISLIKE ANYTHING OR ANYONE
WITHOUT FEELING THIS SAME WAY TOWARDS HIMSELF.
The law of cause and effect called Karma by some or Newton's Third law
by others, demonstrates this oneness of all. Thus, For every action there is
an equal and opposite reaction," or "As you sow so must you reap," or "for
whatever measure you deal out to others it shall be dealt to you in return," or
"If you do it to the least of them, you do it to me."
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| CHAPTER 9
MACRO PHILOSOPHERS AND MICRO RELIGIONS
The three greatest wise men of recorded history were Laotzu, Guatama,
and Jesus. All three of these men were highly evolved souls who spent at least
the latter part of their final incarnation on this planet, at a middle or high
sub-macro level. They all taught the fundamental macro concept that all is
one. To their most advanced disciples they taught the mysteries of the mM
(microcosmic-macrocosmic) continuum and the devolution (incarnation) and
evolution of the soul along this continuum. They were this worlds greatest
macro philosophers for they not only taught that all is one, they also
demonstrated and practiced this belief by loving unconditionally everyone and
everything.
The disciples of these three sub-macro men found it extremely
difficult to understand the working of their master's minds-about as difficult
a task as a grade school child attempting to comprehend the mind of an
Einstein. Nevertheless, the disciples, who were either very high level micro
or very low level sub-macro, attempted to understand the macro philosophy of
their masters well enough to teach it and later to write about it. However,
they were seriously handicapped since only high level sub-macro beings can
fully comprehend and practice macro philosophy.
Laotzu, the Chinese sage of approximately 700 B.C. taught that if
there was no evil, ugliness, or foolishness there could not be any goodness,
beauty, or wisdom. This confused and confounded many of his followers. He,
then, further bewildered his disciples by insisting that all is perfect from a
whole or macro viewpoint. It was only many years after Laotzu had chosen to
excarnate (without losing consciousness) that his followers established the
religion or philosophy of Tao or Taoism and struggled with the problems of
micro social organizations. His followers believed that Laotzu had taught and
demonstrated great and wondrous things with great power, but what exactly had
happened and how it was accomplished was beyond micro man's comprehension.
At approximately the same time in India, the disciples of Siddartha
Gautama, called Buddha (Enlightened one), were struggling to understand the
paradoxical teachings of a man who claimed that freedom from illusion (Maya or
micro bondage) was the product of giving up all desire. He taught that when a
soul has evolved to this level of macrocosmic awareness (Nirvana) it is no
longer bound to the wheel of life (necessity for reincarnation), for it is
only the soul's micro desires that produce a micro existence which requires
the dense physical body. Therefor, as long as one desires to attain Nirvana
in order to attain pleasure and avoid pain, (the consequences of his micro
past) he will never reach macro awareness (Nirvana).
This teaching about the necessity of giving up all desire (micro desire
for pleasure and denial of pain) proved impossible for Guatama's later
disciples, and they misinterpreted this sub-macro concept to mean not caring
for or loving anything or anyone-just the opposite of what Guatama really
meant. Thus, the followers of Guatama, like the followers of Laotzu, founded
an organization dedicated to teaching the macro philosophy of their GREAT
TEACHER and ended up usually practicing micro philosophy.
Of course, the micro beings who have called themselves Christians
after their GREAT TEACHER have been equally unable to practice the one macro
imperative given by Jesus-"to love one another."
Jesus, who incarnated some six or seven hundred years after Laotzu
and Guatama, taught nothing new or original to sub-macro beings. But macro
philosophy is always new and perplexing to amnesic micro man. The teaching
of Jesus concerning the necessity of giving up all possessions in order to
attain the Kingdom of Heaven was the same concept that Gautama had presented by
saying one must give up all micro desires to attain Nirvana.
While Jesus taught nothing new, he demonstrated macro philosophy and
its sub-macro powers more dramatically and more extensively than any previous
sub-macro being. These demonstrations culminated in what his disciples called
Resurrection. to sub-macro beings Jesus had perfectly demonstrated the
sub-macro power of psychokenesis or mind controlling matter when he controlled
the atomic structure of his body so that he could appear (lower vibration) to
micro man and disappear (higher vibration) at will.
While these demonstrations of sub-macro powers made believers of micro
beings they generally did not believe in their own latent sub-macro powers.
They were confused and tended to believe that Jesus was God or at least the
ONLY son of God and thus essentially and forever different and separate from
all other beings. The macro concept that all is one, taught so clearly by
Jesus and written not so clearly in the 17th chapter of John, was beyond micro
man's comprehension.
While all Christians accept and use (in their rituals) one prayer which
begins "our Father...," they do not accept it's meaning. Certainly those
first two words clearly present the close relationship between all human
beings, including Jesus, as children of one Father-Creator (Macro self). And,
although Jesus was clearly the wise elder brother, he was only an older
member of the same family and not from some superior species of creature. Of
course, if Christians could have practiced this teaching, and treated everyone
as an equal brother or sister and "Loved one Another," all their conflicts,
misery, and suffering would have ended but their micro pleasures would have
ended also. This was just too great a price for micro man to pay-the pleasure
of feeling superior to others was just too enjoyable to give up.
This greatest of all micro pleasures, pride, was also micro man's
greatest obstacle in accepting the basic teaching of all sub-macro
teachers-that all is one-all is perfect-all is love. Obviously there is no
place for feelings of superiority (pride) when one completely accepts the
basic tenets of macro philosophy.
Thus, the only true difference between human beings was not that they
called themselves Taoists, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, etc.,
but the extent that they practiced the macro imperative-love one another.
Once again, it is possible to practice this commandment only to the extent
that one accepts that all is one-all is perfect-all is love. AND it is
impossible to completely believe these statements unless one has evolved a
large enough perspective, or awareness, to remember not only past lives but
also one's own origin in the macro self, along with all other souls.
Now micro man prides himself on his religion or philosophy and
insists that the great teachers of other religions were false teachers, or at
least very inferior to his own great teacher. Sub-macro man, however, can
remember past lives when he was a Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist,
Christian, Zorastrian, etc. Sub-macro man, therefore, knows that the
spiritual core of all religions has the same source-the inner self. the
differences among religions are all products of micro man's distortions
in order to find a way to feel superior to others.
Thus it is ignorance an pride that produce the divisive micro
religions and the countless sects within religions. Only micro man thinks of
himself as a Jew or a Christian, or a Buddhist, or a Muslim-as infinitum.
Sub-macro man thinks of himself as an immortal soul created by the macro self
out of the same mind substance as all other souls and all other things-all
indivisible parts or thoughts of one infinite mind.
Obviously only micro man needs the pomp and ceremony, the rituals and
dogmas, and elaborate hierarchic structures of religious institutions. Only
micro man needs a priest or some other intermediary to help him understand and
communicate with his Creator.
Sub-macro man has only one religion-a macro one; He has only one
philosophy-a macro one; and both of these are one and the same.
While micro man concentrates his attention on the differences between
human beings in order to feel superior to others, Sub-macro man concentrates
on the similarities in order to feel one with others. Sub-macro man does not
deny that differences exist, but he knows that they only exist at the micro
and sub-macro levels and that there are no differences at the macro level.
I have mentioned the three most highly evolved macro philosophers in
recorded history but there were many more. However, the majority of these
other macro philosophers were not able to maintain sub-macro awareness
consistently and over long periods of time. Thus, by and large the major
differences among macro philosophers has not been the content of their
teachings or beliefs but, rather, their ability to practice their beliefs
consistently, over time, and under severe tests or conditions. Who were some
of these lesser (less consistently aware) macro philosophers?
The recorded histories of India and China present more macro
philosophers than any other land. Certainly the writers and teachers of the
Tao Teh King of China and the Vedas and Upanishads of India are not only too
numerous to name but too remote from the present. In recent history these
lands have been filled with peoples of extremely limited self-awareness, and
their immensely selfish, narrow lives have usually not attracted very highly
evolved souls.
This has also been true of North Africa and Asia minor. The macro
philosophers of these lands, known as the Sufis, were powerful teachers and
Muhammad, founder of the religion, was one of these. Yet, in recent history
the vast majority of incarnating souls in these lands held extremely narrow
micro views, producing extremely selfish lives and,thus, attracted few highly
evolved souls.
The recorded histories of Europe and the Americas present far fewer
macro philosophers than Asia or Africa and yet in the past 500 years there have
been more highly evolved souls born in Europe and particularly the United
States than in any other lands. Why has this been so?
souls wishing to incarnate in cultures offering maximum freedom fro
self awareness growth would hardly select the more rigid and stagnant cultures
of the world in which micro religions enforced rigid social divisions of caste
and class and reduced most human life to an animal level of awareness. No,
the more highly evolved souls chose a Europe rebelling against the corruption
of a micro church and fleeing predominantly to North America. Here in the
United States advanced souls succeeded in separating church and state for the
first time in recorded (micro) history. There developed in the United States
more freedom and opportunity for growth of self awareness than in any other
time or place since Atlantis (which micro man scoffs at because he cannot
remember his own past lives).
however, freedom is a two edged sword. While there was more freedom
for growth there was also more freedom for destruction. The United States and
Europe have developed some of the most advanced cultures, but they have also
developed some of the most destructive weapons and fought some of the most
destructive wars in recorded history. Obviously, many macro souls have
dominated the history of these as well as most other countries.
Today, at the dawn of a new age-The Aquarian Age-there are more highly
evolved souls being born into all lands than ever before, in micro history.
However, there were more sub-macro beings incarnated during the various times
of the Atlantean era. The macro philosophers of the ancient past are now
reincarnating in ever greater numbers.
While micro Christians will never accept it, the souls of their highly
revered saints such as Peter, James, John, and Paul are also reincarnating
again. (I'm trying to set up a reunion :' ) Ernie) For the Aquarian Age is
the millennium that Jesus foresaw, and at last these souls have evolved
sufficiently to begin establishing a sub-macro civilization on Earth. In their
incarnation with Jesus, only one of the Apostles, John the Beloved, had
evolved to a low sub-macro level of awareness (consistently).
Souls such as Pythagoras (Who was, in my opinion, also called Plato
and Plotinus in subsequent incarnations), Confucius, and Muhammad are also
being born during the dawn of this new age. They will remember some of their
past lives for they will attain consistent sub-macro awareness. Many ancient
macro philosophers incarnated during the 19th century and founded the Unity
and New Thought Churches at the beginning of the 20th Century. The soul of
perhaps the greatest macro philosopher of pre-historic Egypt, a high priest
called Rata, reincarnated many times but finally in the United States in 1877
in a body subsequently named Edgar Cayce.
For some 40 years,prior to his death in 1945, this man, named Edgar
Cayce, demonstrated sub-macro awareness while in a self induced hypnotic
trance. He was able to demonstrate all of the sub-macro powers and taught
all of the basic macro philosophy concepts. However, he was not able to
maintain consistent sub-macro awareness while he was conscious. I mention this
man because some 14,000 stenographic records of his sub-macro demonstrations
are now micro filmed and available as modern evidence at Virginia Beach,
Virginia for all those seeking such support. I believe that this Edgar Cayce
material, preserved and presented to the public by the A.R.E. Foundation, is
the most extensive and best documented evidence for macro philosophy which has
ever been available in micro history.
The life story of Edgar Cayce is an inspiring view of the universal
struggle between the micro self and the sub-macro self and, in the end, the
sub-macro self triumphs as it must eventually for every human being. It is
far easier for micro man to identify with Edgar Cayce, the struggling,
frequently angry, frightened, and depressed micro being, than with the
immaculately conceived Laotzu, Guatama, and Jesus who seemed to have overcome
their micro selves with relative ease.
What micro man has forgotten is that while these souls, in their final
incarnations Laotzu, Gautama, and Jesus, demonstrated highly evolved
sub-macro awareness, at one time these souls, too, were lost in micro levels of
awareness in their much earlier incarnations. In other words, it is easy for
the child to view the teacher as superhuman and impossible to copy, but the
teacher knows that he, too, was once a child.
Micro man's inability to remember past lives differentiates him from
higher level micro beings and all sub-macro beings. Since all sub-macro beings
have some memory of past lives, the concept of reincarnation is accepted by
everyone who has evolved to this level. The sub-macro concept of reincarnation
is an integral part of macro philosophy. Individuals who have attempted to
teach macro philosophy, but omitting reincarnation and Karma, have made it
impossible for their disciples to completely understand it and, at best, have
left their students with an incomplete, superficial understanding. This has
been one of the major difficulties of traditional Christianity which has
stubbornly denied its own sub-macro teachings and teacher.
While it would be possible to list the historical names of thousands
of macro philosophers, this would not be in harmony with the purpose of this
book. That purpose is to introduce macro philosophy ideas, which are not
original with me or any other micro or sub-macro incarnating soul. However,
for those seeking books about macro philosophers, I offer a brief and very
incomplete list of suggested readings at the end of the chapter.
Concerning the greatest of all incarnating macro philosophers,
previously known as Jesus of Nazareth, I particularly recommend two books: "The
Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ. This book will usually appeal only to
Aquarian age souls. In addition, I strongly recommend the 5th, 6th and 7th
chapters of Matthew and Chapters 14, 15, 16 and 17 of John in the New
Testament-preferably in modern translation.
In fact, with the exception of the Bible, almost all of these books
have so far failed to capture a large reading audience due to the shortage of
incarnated Aquarian Age Souls. However, this fact is rapidly changing as an
ever increasing number of the New Age souls incarnate and eventually begin
seeking out ideas that satisfy their driving soul hunger for a macro
philosophy-for greater self awareness.
All of the authors listed below have attained at last a high micro
level of awareness and at lest half of them have attained frequent, if not
consistent, sub-macro awareness. fortunately, it is possible for people to
spend most of their lives locked in micro prisons but still attain short
periods of sub-macro or even momentary macro awareness and during these brief
periods, write sub-macro books.
(The list is quite outdated. This list contains 16 books of which
I made a separate list to save space. If anyone is interested, let me know
and I will mail a copy of the list to you--Ernie.)
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Grace is defined in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as "Freedom from sin
through divine grace; A virtue coming from God; Acceptance, approval (as 'in
his Grace')." The concordance of the King James Version of the Bible defines
Grace as "The unearned Love and favor Given to man through God's Goodness."
From time to time I have heard such statements as "By the Grace of God I
wasn't hurt." I could not understand why God would have a whim to bestow his
Grace on a particular individual and leave millions of other people to suffer
hunger and stavation, and pain of various sorts. From a micro viewpoint, this
is so. From a macro viewpoint, within the micro-macro continuum, any
individual may get in touch with his macro self and set up conditions that
would enable him or her to escape immediate harm, while someone nearby,
totally bound to the micro view would not have the larger perspective to
accomplish the same thing.
Grace trancends the Law of Karma, which is in effect at the micro and
sub-macro level of awareness. It may be necessary to deal with the basic
concepts of Karma as described by most Eastern Religions (but not western).
From a sub-macro and high micro viewpoint, there is no injustice
anywhere in the universe for we can reap only what we sow. If we have
mistreated others by causing disease,or deaths by wars, etc. then those
negative actions will be returned to us.
The only way we can free ourselves from past actions is to balance
them with present positive ones. Thus, the law of Karma, or consequences, or
Newton's Third law is not nullified but transcended by what would be called
the law of Grace. The general concept of the Law of Karma is that if one
gives out a negative action or thought of -3, intensity, one must get back or
experience a negative feeling of -3, and that a negative thought or action of
-3 intensity can be countered or balanced by a positive thought or action of
+3 intensity-since -3 and +3 =0-wiping the slate clean. I am not so certain
that the intensities of the negative feelings are in direct proportion to the
negative thoughts and actions. As (for me) sometimes the negative feelings I
get seem way out of proportion to my negative thoughts and actions I give out.
At any rate, and by continuing on the positive karmic path (after
wiping the slate clean)and as long as ones actions are truly altruistic,one
all of a sudden finds himself or herself operating outside the laws of Karma.
He or she is now under the influences of the Law of Grace.
At this level of macro-Awareness, Wonderously strange (from a micro
viewpoint) and miraculous phenomenon take place. At this level "Unearned
Love and Favor..." take on a much larger meaning. Positive, enjoyable things
happen even when we aren't expecting or hoping for it. As one is able to more
consistently, maintain a high sub-macro or macro awareness these types of
actions become more and more abundant. Since, at the macro level, all is one
and time and space exist only at the micro and sub-macro level, The macro
self can affect the (micro) future and (micro) past by effecting the(macro)
present. "The things that are impossible with (micro)men are possible with
God(macro self)." Luke 18:27.
A personal example of this concerns a close friend from whom I
haven't heard for over two years. He lives several States away, and I lost his
phone number. during this time I had not heard from him, I had moved twice,
each time to a different town. I was under the impression that He had an
unlisted phone number so did not pursue that route. I spent a lot of energy
trying to discover a way to get in contact with him. Less than a week later,
I received a call from him. That in and of itself may be coincidence. I
asked him how he got my number since he did not know what city I lived in.
He told me that he called the number I had well over two years ago and it
still had the message informing callers of the "new" number in the second city
I had moved to since I heard from him. He then called that number(in
Worcester) and it still had the message informing callers of my present phone
number. I left Worcester over a year ago. It is standard practice for a
phone company to leave those messages on for no longer than a month,
Especially in large cities where phone service would be at a premium. There
would seem to be a high turn over rate of phone numbers in larger cities.
From a micro viewpoint this would appear to be a series of coincidences- a
series of accidents, but from the macro viewpoint it can be seen that the
present does and can influence the past.
This is only one of the more significant incidents that has happened
in the recent years. Getting and staying beyond the law of Karma is not easy
as it requires vigilant monitoring of one's ego for any sign of potentially
selfish desires or thoughts. It requires impeccable actions and thoughts, and
most of all it requires "intent" which encompasses "wanting, willingness, and
desire. Intent is one step beyond all of these. One must intend it to
happen. Jesus, because of either the limited language, or his inability to
express such macro-thoughts expressed this concept as "Faith." But even Faith
misses the point and won't quite make it happen if one does not "intend" it to
happen.
Only to the micro and sub-macro perspective does cause and effect take
place and the present cannot influence the past. With the macro
perspective, the macro self does not operate within the micro concept of time
and since all is one, the macro self can affect one's past, present and future
simultaneously. Therefore, there is no cause and effect as such.
Two years ago (micro frame of reference) my macro self was aware that
my micro self would require the means of getting in touch with a close and
long standing friend. My macro self created the phone number situation in
the (micro) past to allow my friend and I to make contact in the (micro )
present. At the time I was home and received my friends call, I had to be
operating at a high level of sub macro or macro awareness. If I were
operating from a selfish micro perspective, my self-centeredness would have
most likely caused me to fail getting in contact with my friend(result of
negative karma). "Through God(being in touch with the macro self) all things
are possible."
Ernie
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