What is truth? It depends on whose viewpoint you are using. 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.
Having an arm or leg slowly cut off is exceedingly painful. Yet some of your 20th‑century physicians and dentists used hypnosis to perform every kind of operation. To the extent that, and as long as, the patient was able to accept the deep hypnotic suggestion that no pain existed, he felt no pain. Thus, thousands of cases demonstrated that we can only feel or experience anything to the extent that we believe we can feel or experience it.
From a micro viewpoint, the very you think, and thus feel, is determined by heredity and environment, neither of which you have any control over. Therefore, your scientists said that man had no free will and that all behavior was completely determined by blind chance. And this is true from a micro viewpoint.
Unfortunately, this micro viewpoint denies that there is a larger perspective. "The world is flat, as any fool can plainly see." And from a limited micro viewpoint, the world is flat or concave if in a valley, or convex if on a hilltop. Thus, the size of your perspective determines what truth is, within that frame of reference.
Most of your scientists denied the existence or practicality of larger perspectives such as the Macro perspective which includes reincarnation, soul, and macrocosmic levels.
It is ironic that psychology, as generally taught in your time, denied the existence of a psyche (mind or soul) and insisted that psychologists could only "know" physical or sensory data. Thus, Macro philosophic concepts were quite unacceptable to scientists with a micro orientation.
The Macro perspective sees man as a great mind unlimited by time and space‑sometimes called an immortal soul‑which periodically elects to temporarily inhabit various types of vehicles (called bodies) in order to experience and learn greater 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 this macrocosmic awareness of their oneness with all that is, all that was, and all that ever will be (what some would call "God").
Another way of looking at these levels of awareness could be:
1. The micro self is an individual's body, personality, and limited conscious mind which believes that this is all there is of an individual.
2. The evolving self, or subconscious mind, knows that it is only one tiny part of a soul.
3. The Macro self or universal mind knows that all is one and, therefore, is aware that the Macro self contains within it a perfect balance of the positive and negative polarity of all dimensions. While there may be a temporary imbalance in individual souls (which causes their lack of Macro awareness), these individual imbalances, when seen from a Macro perspective, are recognized as the natural life rhythms of a perfectly balanced macrocosm.
In other words, there are no problems at the Macro level. 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 must come.
While mystics in all ages have described this ultimate Macro awareness, perhaps the best known and most available reference to this Macro perspective is found in the 17th chapter of the Gospel of John. In this chapter the great Macro philosopher 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."
It is only from this Macro viewpoint, in which the human soul and subconscious mind perceive its oneness with all minds (super‑conscious, universal mind, macrocosm, 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 was right for the Christian to eat pork, it was wrong for the Jew or Moslem. While it was wrong to kill others during peacetime, it was right during wartime. This type of right and wrong belongs in the context of social law or custom and is totally determined by the size of one's perspective.
Most people of your time did not recognize that their personal philosophy determined whether they were fat or thin, healthy or unhealthy and most of all, happy or unhappy. If you examine the size (temporal dimension) of your personal philosophy, or perspective, you will recognize that it is the size of your perspective which determines your awareness of the consequences of your choices.
For instance, if hedonistic pleasure is your major goal and your temporal perspective is quite limited, you will be unaware of the long‑range consequences of overindulgence. You will eat too much and become fat and eventually, sick. You will avoid strenuous physical and mental activity and become physically and mentally flabby and eventually both unhealthy and unhappy.
Since everyone seeks pleasure, it is extremely important that you become aware of the size of your perspective, for short‑term pleasure frequently causes long‑term pain. If you are really interested in maximizing pleasure you must expand your perspective in order to become aware of the long‑range consequences (pleasure‑pain) of your personal philosophy and the choices it determines.
Those who are micro‑bound can not truly comprehend anything beyond a physical view of man. Concepts such as the subconscious, or soul, or brotherhood of man, are merely abstractions for micro man. In other words, he can not feel related, brotherly, and loving for any extended period of time. He basically feels alienated and separate from himself (his own subconscious) and thus, must feel alienated and separate from 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 since everything that is, is perfect. 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 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 remembering the past and applying the lessons you learned from it.
If you could remember everything, you would realize your 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 the focus of its consciousness or awareness until it could not remember who it was, where it came from, or where it was going. It was then that it mentally divided itself into cells, each of which pretended it was a whole soul.
In this state of self‑induced amnesia and division, the soul could experience pride and exaltation over others because it had forgotten that it was one with all. It had even forgotten its own soul mates (members of a group of souls who regularly incarnate together) and its own twin souls (those "souls" who are cells of the same oversoul and, thus, have identical soul vibrations).
In this state of amnesia the soul could perceive other souls as enemies because it viewed itself as separate from them. Like the mad paranoiac who thinks his fingers are trying to strangle him, because he has forgotten that he controls them, the souls forgot they were all‑powerful and that, from a Macro view, they made all the decisions and chose all the results.
Since they had forgotten their greater selves' power, they were doomed to live in the unbalanced, imperfect, micro world they created where no one could reme
mber his past and, thus, no one could forsee the future.
No one can see the end of the journey if his vision is limited to a tiny part of the whole journey. No one can make sense of the jigsaw puzzle if he can see only a few of its millions of pieces.
Since all time is simultaneous, 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 humanity is to evolve to a point where you can accept total responsibility for absolutely everything you experience.
This paves the way for the ultimate challenge‑joyous acceptance of the absolute perfection of all that is, all that was, and all that ever will be.
You can see, then, that the measure of a mind's evolution is its acceptance of the unacceptable.
C.I. ON THE MACRO SOCIETY
By 2150 the world has been almost completely united by a universal educational system that begins at birth and ends, formally, at the 30th birthday. This monolithic educational system combines the five institutions of society‑family, education, religion, business, and government into one interdependent whole called the Macro society.
The 20th century's prophets of doom for mankind, such as Orwell and Huxley, were, like most others, caught in the limited micro viewpoint of the 20th century. This micro viewpoint saw man as basically an unbalanced
animal doomed to destroy himself with his own selfishness and technical skills which develop destructive devices and massive environmental pollution.
The 20th century was dominated by micro thinking, characterized by hedonistic momentary pleasure‑seeking. A typical example was the politician who put his own temporary welfare ahead of long‑term welfare of all people, including his own children, when he voted against pollution controls because industry in his district thought it too expensive.
There are many other examples of selfish short‑term micro thinking, such as the belief that war was justified and that billions of dollars spent each year on guns and such devices for killing each other was a more noble patriotic duty than removing the cause of human conflict‑ignorance. Educational opportunities were unequal and limited by local special (micro) interests which were dedicated to helping a few at the expense of many.
The most basic institution of micro society, the family, traditionally taught each new generation narrow (micro) ethnocentric loyalties and prejudices and perpetuated the social patterns of stratification and segregation. Thus, the micro family fostered human separation by teaching paramount loyalty to a biological family rather than a spiritual one. In so doing, it denied the universal brotherhood of all men.
With this micro philosophy espousing narrow micro loyalties, separation and conflict were inevitable. Finally, with the
development of weapons having almost unlimited destructive power, the human race had to choose between either
extinction' or the development of a larger Macro philosophy with loyalty to the universal brotherhood of all men.
By the end of the 20th century, micro thinking produced environmental pollution, overpopulation, and human conflict to such an extreme that the micro family almost literally destroyed itself. For the human race to survive, the micro family had to give way.
The human survivors of the early 21st century accepted the practical benefits of the Macro philosophy long proposed by such giants as Lao‑tzu, Gautama, and Jesus.
This Macro perspective of mankind proclaimed one spiritual (macrocosmic) father for all "Call no man Father" (Matthew 23:9) and one categorical imperative" Love one another." (John, 15:17)
Since ignorance and denial of these Macro concepts had been perpetuated by micro social institutions, they were replaced by one unifying structure called the Macro society. This universal social system provided and integrated the functions of education, government, religion, business, and procreation.
The development and existence of the Macro society depended on its ability to educate all its members with a Macro philosophy which produced Macro loyalty and identity. It minimized selfish micro behavior in its members and maximized unselfish (Macro) behavior.
All hostile, angry behavior is viewed by the Macro society as the product of micro thinking, which is dedicated to protecting the micro self or micro group against others who are viewed as outsiders.
There are no outsiders from a Macro view.
Of course, the obvious tremendous advantages of the Macro society are in the use of one language, one culture, one religion (Macro philosophy), one government, and one race‑the human race.
Micro man didn't give up his micro loyalties to his family, religion, government, skin color, language, and culture without a fight. He literally perished in his struggle to maintain the divisions that kept the human race from being united and free frown fear, hatred, and ignorance.
The age of micro man is almost over, and those humans still living on this earth will soon all be Macro beings who are both willing and able to learn and live a larger loyalty, a larger perspective‑a Macro perspective. These highly evolved beings will devote their major energies and resources to developing an educational system which will foster ever greater sensitivity and awareness of self/other/macrocosm relationships. The goal of this educational system will always be to produce Macro loyalty and Macro identity.
Psychologists of the 20th century held that during the early learning periods basic life personality patterns were formed. In the micro family, by the end of six years a child had learned self‑alienated, paranoid patterns inculcated by the parents and reinforced by the society. People believed that they were the pawns of their early experiences, unaware that they could, at any time, be whatever they wanted to be and believed they could be.
By 2150 children no longer have to enter this world by micro accident and grow up in a society which is unwilling to provide optimum health, nutrition, and educational opportunities for all its children.
Children can now enter the Macro society, which both wants and loves them. Each new member encounters an environment designed to provide optimum freedom to explore and succeed in the uniquely human task of manipulating verbal symbols. Each child experiences unconditional love from other members of his society and, thus, learns to value self/others, to trust self/others, and to enjoy learning. Positive self concepts are developed by constant interaction with adults possessing positive self concepts, and children are taught the responsibility of and the art of creating their own life experiences.
Since the Macro society established universal spiritual brotherhood, its organizational structure is very different from that of the micro family. A central concept of the Macro society is the law of inverse loyalty: the smaller the unit, the less loyalty owed to its members. Thus, in a test of loyalty, God/macrocosm/universal mind will always win‑and by "God" I mean all that is, as opposed to some special group or individual.
The importance of this concept of inverse loyalty can be recognized when it is understood that the Macro society is composed of units; the smallest of which is 10, expanding in multiples of 10 (10, 100, 1,000, etc.) until the largest unit includes all humanity who are working toward the Macro level of awareness.
This is the total Macro society and represents the final culmination of man's long struggle to attain "peace and good will to all men." This universal spiritual brotherhood is impossible for micro man to practice because from his limited perspective he is unable to truly perceive his relationship to self/others/macrocosm/God.
The following chart illustrates the complete organizational structure of the Macro society.
MACRO SOCIETY
ORGANIZATIONAL CHART
Unit Composition Population Leader
ALPHA 10 Individuals 10 Alphar
BETA 10 Alphas 100 Betar
GAMMA 10 Betas 1,000 Gammar
DELTA 10 Gammas 10,000 Delta
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ATON 10 Deltas 100,000 Atar
ZTON 10 Atons 1,000,000 Ztar
KTON 10 Ztons 10,000,000 Ktar
MUTON 10 Ktons 100,000,000 Mutar
MAXON 10 Mutons 1,000,000,000 Maxar
MACRO
SOCIETY All Maxons All Mankind All Maxars
The basic unit of the Macro society is called the Alpha. It is composed of 10 individuals (5 males and 5 females), one of whom serves as. the Alphar, or leader of the group. This leader is elected on a yearly basis by all members of the group and is authorized to resolve all internal disputes in order to maximize group harmony and cooperation.
The Alpha members share a common living area ninety yards square which is divided into seven rooms. Six rooms are thirty feet square and the seventh is thirty by ninety and is their common room. Five of the six rooms are shared by Alpha mates, always a male and a female, while the sixth room is kitchen and dining area.
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