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Preface
My
napkin sketch is a mental model of UNITY’s flow, from the first chapter on the
crisis of society living in dark in Plato’s cave; to the second chapter on the
vegan revolution, helping to lead individuals and society out of the cave; the
third chapter on achieving higher consciousness; the fourth chapter on the
environmental crisis; and the fifth chapter on the crisis of governance,
organizing, and the subsequent return to practical affairs: going back into the
cave for revolution and achieving transformational social change.
Buddha’s Sombrero
My napkin sketch of UNITY’s plot is Buddha’s sombrero. Similar to classic mandala art representing the universe, cosmos and Enlightenment, I’m depicting Buddha floating in the multiverse of the infinite ocean of cosmic consciousness.
Note the other symbolism: the swastika is an ancient symbol of peace and infinity in time (eternity). Due to our era of spiritual darkness and paradox, this is now seen as a symbol of hate. Also, Buddha is touching the ground, symbolizing connectedness and the importance of staying grounded in physical reality on Earth while meditating. Buddha sits on a lotus, a symbol of purity and spontaneous generation and divine birth
The lotus is also a motif of Plato’s cave: the lotus rises through and grows above the murky waters, representing the progress of the soul from primeval mud of materialism through the waters of experience, into the bright sunshine of Enlightenment. Buddha’s Sombrero also represents not taking life too seriously. The issues are important, but have fun with it!
Introduction
E Pluribus Unum
Out of Many, One
Many values are captured in the most widely communicated
piece of printed material in history: the one dollar bill. E Pluribus Unum, describes the ultimate mission of the US. The
eagle faces the olive branch indicating peace is the preferred tactic. It's a sacred truth and the de facto motto of the US, on
the Seal of the US.
Another key image is the pyramid is capped by the
spiritual eye indicating the order of the ages is to be completed by The
Spirit. Below the pyramid is the motto, “Novus
Ordo Seclorum” ("New Order of the Ages"), described
in the Prophecy subsection
in the Higher Consciousness chapter.
It’s a prophecy for Awakening. “Aspire to lead the world to paradise.”
This mythic cycle of “the hero’s journey” incorporates the ideal of
society, where individuals are cooperating and fulfilling unrealized
possibilities, linking individuals with a meaningful social purpose, and
balancing personal and social wholeness. The highest potential is a unification
of the individual with the whole of humanity. Our transformation involves
dissolving our attachment to our identity and the “pleasures” of our
lives, the barriers keeping ourselves from realizing our true selves and direct
experience with higher consciousness.
Population & Consumption
Chapter 2: The Vegan Healthcare Standard
The whole food, plant-based (vegan) diet is about consuming plant-based foods in
forms as close to their natural state as possible ("whole" foods).
Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and
whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from
added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 50-80% of your calories from carbohydrates,
10-40% from fat, and 10-40% from protein, depending on your individual
constitution.
In other words, the diet is simple: eat whole, plant-based
foods, with little or no added salt, or refined carbohydrates like sugar or
white flour. A raw diet with over 70% live foods is even better: cooked food loses about
50% of its protein, 70-80% of its vitamins and minerals, and close to 100% of its
phytonutrients and biophotons.
Chapter 3: Higher Consciousness
Flow is when we feel in control, full of purpose,
and in the zone.
People turn unpleasant tasks into enjoyable, rewarding challenges. The best
moments of our lives are experiences we worked hard to attain, when we stretch
our body and mind to the limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something
difficult and worthwhile. It doesn’t matter what the ultimate goal is, provided
it is compelling enough. As long as it provides clear objectives, clear rules
for action, and a way to concentrate and become involved, any goal can serve to
give meaning to a person’s life.
Maslow’s
Hierarchy of Needs
- Self-actualization – the realization or fulfillment of one's talents and potentialities, especially considered as a drive or need present in everyone; developing your capacities.
- Peak performance – a state in which the person performs to the maximum of their ability, characterized by subjective feelings of confidence, effortlessness and total concentration on the task.
- Self-transcendence—the overcoming of the limits of the individual self and its desires in spiritual contemplation and realization.
- Peak experience—a kind of transpersonal and ecstatic state, particularly one tinged with themes of euphoria, harmonization and interconnectedness.
Ken Wilber's Integral Theory
Fractal
An infinite and fractal multiverse
emerges on the energy/light spectrum.
This woman has immortalized her body and enlightened
her mind. She juggles the five material elements in one hand and the universe in
the other. She has attained mastery over creation. She stands in the golden egg
of creation (hiranyagarba) which represents the seed of the universe.
This
type of art, like Venus by Sandro Botticelli (an ardent Platonist), is
not erotic, but a vision of heavenly beauty and a call to transcendence: there
is interest in the embodied person, not (like in pornography) interest in the
body or intent to arouse sexual desire. Plato’s eros is the
origin of both sexual desire and the love of beauty. Eros is a
form of love which seeks to unite with its object. A higher form of love, agape (love of god) is where the object
of love is not possessed but contemplated, which involves the ascension of the
soul into higher spheres.
Ken Wilber's Integral Theory of Consciousness
Point A is
ordinary reality in the observable universe.
Point B is Enlightenment
The
diagram idea, the Euclidean geometric form of the physical universe, is from
Ion Soteropoulos, The Infinite In Act
(2008) and Metaphysics of Infinity: The
Problem of Motion and the Infinite Brain (2013). How to move from A to B?
The heart of the problem is the conflict between the finite and the infinite,
its solution depends on reconciling this contradiction, thus achieving unity.
This model is about shifting from Point A, the Aristotelian ontology of the
physical body, the nature of our finite brain, and the finite analytic paradigm
of empirical science, to the cosmic singularity, Point B, through the
acceleration of technology and consciousness.
How to move from A to
B? It’s called “the way,” “the path,” and “the work on oneself.” For example, see Jeanne De Salzmann, The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of
Gurdjieff (1957, 2011), describing a way of gnosis or
"knowledge of being" that combines (1) the fakir (Muslim) self-mastery of the body, (2) the monk’s
(Christian) self-mastery of the heart and faith, and, and (3) the yogi’s
(Hindi, Buddhist, and Jain) self-mastery of mental habits and capabilities—via
Yoga, Vedas, and/or the Eightfold Path. There are infinite ways!
Trinity or Hospitality of Abraham (Andrei Rublev, 1411-1427).
In this artistic masterpiece, the identity of Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit are shown equal. The light that shines around their heads is
white, pure light, and that same white becomes the holy table, the place of
offering. God is revealed and disclosed here, in the whiteness of untouchable
light. The focus is on the chalice-bowl which reminds of an altar at Communion,
where “we, who are many, are one body.” (1 Cor. 10:17). It’s a communal ritual sharing a single cup, symbolizing
unity. It is God’s hospitality to us, the viewer, invited and welcomed to join.
The tree of life above the Son is on the way to the open door
of the house above the Father. It is the goal of the journey. The table is set
and the door is open. Come.
Rublev’s Hospitality
of Abraham icon is also important because Abraham is a common father for
the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim brothers and sisters. This spiritual unification,
which is embodied in the Way of Peace,
is a potential bridge that is needed to create the preconditions for the Messianic
Age (a time of universal peace); to wake up to the perennial truth of all
paths: the Divine Presence is the essence of who we are. The icon represents
the principle that “God is One.” Abraham brings to us not monotheism, but a
personal relationship to the one God. This awareness is what has the potential
to unify all people in the awareness of our one-soulness. It’s an invitation to eat and live in a way to
enhance our communion with the Divine. It’s an invitation to return to God.
The icon also exemplifies the
importance of avoiding idol worship. The One became the Many and we are never
separate from the One, but vehicles for the fulfillment of God’s work of
unification of creation. Idol worship gives power to and focuses on any thing
as if separate from God, or an intermediary of God—money, symbols (icons),
physical idols, and so on. Idol-worship takes us away from the mystical truth
that God dwells within us, as us.
Mandala
Most people have an Absolute they pay homage to, whether
a deity or a scientific or political principle. For example, meditating on a mandala—representing
unity and the universe— can also bring you to enlightenment. But the image you
are beholden to can warp your perspective. Extravagant religious images are
mere window dressing, and at best they are intermediate to a total grounding in
the Absolute.
Grand Relief of Eleusis
Demeter, Triptolemos, and Persephone, 5th century BCE. Triptolemos (“primordial man”) was sent by Demeter on a civilizing mission to teach men how to cultivate grain.
Very
tricky social and cultural dilemmas emerge if your consciousness extends beyond
the language you know and the culture in which you exist.
–Jay
Stevens, Storming Heaven
From Personal Evolution and Mental Technology to
Global Transformation
From the US
Military’s handbook on becoming a Warrior Monk.
Source: Jim Channon, The First Earth Battalion (1979), US Military.
Energy Exercises:
Thymus
Thump: Your thymus gland is located about
2 inches below K-27, in the center of our chest. It’s a gland that produces
T-cells that are critical to our immune system. It will boost your immune
system and stimulate your energy. Tap or thump this area for about 15 to 20
seconds, 15-30 times. Use your thumb and all your fingers firmly. As you tap,
breathe slowly and deeply, in through your nose and out through your
mouth. Learn about other energy healing
exercises too. Integrate this into your work, studying or commute.
K27 Thump is located just below the collarbone on
each side of your breastbone. Tapping or
massaging it will strengthen your immune system; boost and restore your overall
energy level; reduce fatigue; move lymph; improve focus and memory; keep energy
moving forward through all of your meridians. Cross your hands as you thump to
help the figure 8 cross over energy pattern from the Brain. You will want to massage or tap these points
frequently.
CV17 Thump –is the Sea of Qi and also called the Sea
of Tranquility. It is located between
the breasts, level with the nipples at the mid-line of your breastbone. Tapping or massaging it increases energy
flow, reduces fatigue, calms the mind and the heart, while reducing stress.
A Kirlan photograph of pyramid energy. It enhances meditation.
In
2009 Hof completed a full marathon ((26.219 mi (42 km)), above the polar circle
in Finland, in temperatures close to −20 °C (−4 °F). Dressed in nothing but
shorts, Hof finished in 5 hours and 25 minutes.
Chakras
Chapter 4: Environmental Harmony
The communities with the potential for the highest
long-term adaptive capacity
are located in what I call the Zones of
Habitability. These zones are based on climate change models and
predictions plus socio-economic and cultural factors. The map below shows the zones least
likely to experience the impending extremes in prolonged drought, storms or
flooding that will dominate the world in the coming decades and centuries. These areas are:
- Northeast North America through central and Western Canada and Alaska.
- Eastern Russia and China through Mongolia and Kazakhstan through Scandinavia.
See the colored maps: Joe Romm, Think
Progress, New Study Puts the 'Hell' in
Hell and High Water: NCAR, Drought
Under Global Warming: A Review (2011), available at http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/10/20/206899/ncar-daidrought-under-global-warming-a-review/.
The Northeastern US zone, in my opinion, is the most
sustainable zone in the world. This map is based on the Tree of Life sacred
geometry. However, the biggest problem is the population density (in New York
City, Boston, D.C., and Philadelphia), likely beyond the area’s carrying
capacity.
Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian mystic and artist,
described his masterpiece, Composition
VII (1913), as representing humanity on the brink of the Great Epoch of Spirituality,
on the brink of Spiritual Evolution.*
*Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Art of Russia, Part II: Roads to Revolution (2009). Evoking a spiritual resonance in viewer and artist,
it’s with a sense of desperation, flurry, urgency, and confusion. Kandinsky described in Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1912), the creation of art from "an internal necessity" at the
apex of the upward-moving spiritual pyramid of humanity, penetrating and
proceeding into the future.
Chapter 4: Environmental Harmony
IPCC (2001) graph illustrating the idea of increasing (a) severity and (b) frequency resulting in (c) a new climate with a higher probability of extremes
Redeliniation
of Flood Zones
(And GDP is a 1:1 metric for energy consumption).
And arctic methane is only one
of about a dozen or so other abrupt “tipping points” that trigger uncontrollable
runaway climate change.
And arctic methane is only one
of about a dozen or so other abrupt “tipping points” that can trigger uncontrollable
runaway climate change.[1] But the methane bomb is already triggered.
It’s hard to transition from this to Level 1-3 solutions.
Individual or even community preparedness for natural disasters, energy and
emissions reductions, and relocalization efforts, although very necessary, are
completely insufficient to prevent these catastrophic tipping points.
Efforts
to limit and reverse methane and other pollutants’ obnoxious effects must be
commensurate to its magnitude—and the magnitude of the methane bomb is 5,000
to 10,000 GtCO2-eq compared to 33
Gt/y total emissions and the 275 Gt budget.
Projected temperature spikes of 3-6°C before 2100 are
outside the realm of human experience. This graph shows 90% of Earth’s
temperature history,
from 542 million years (my) Cambrian Explosion; For context, humans have been
evolving about 6my and the 10 thousand year Holocene stability allowed for agriculture and our 5 to
10 thousand-year civilization. A global average rise in 4˚C is “incompatible with civilization”
and 5˚C represents likely human extinction.
The expected/predicted change, 2050-2100,
is 3-6°C.
Earth acquired its present size, around 4-5
billion years ago. Life originated about 2 billion years ago, but the fossil
record starts about 542mya. Graph Source: Open Source System Foundation, Global Warming Natural Cycle, available at http://ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/natural-cycle.
What I call spiritual
geoengineering (to differentiate it from industrialized geoengineering) is
based on a long and significant history of promising research, ancient
traditions, and personal insight.
Studies show that focused meditation causes biophoton photolysis,
or chemical reactions in the environment, such as a change in water acidity
(pH) and accelerated plant growth. Other studies show that meditation in groups
cause larger-scale social and environmental changes. Furthermore, multi-year
studies on specific meditations indicate that groups can cause planetary-level
effects on solar radiation, for example, by decreasing sunspots by over thirty
percent. Thus, meditation is already a known and demonstrable solar radiation
management (SRM) technology.
The basic ideas is that daily group meditations focused on
environmental harmony can cause large-scale effects for diffusing the methane
bomb, reducing carbon dioxide through accelerated photosynthesis, reducing
ocean acidity, stabilizing the polar ice caps, preventing catastrophic super
storms, and providing other beneficial effects in a way that is safe, inexpensive,
and more effective than any proposal for industrial-based geoengineering.
My hypothesis is that meditation groups can be light-catalysts
for methane dissociation, oceanic deacidification, and
accelerated photolysis for biosequestration of carbon dioxide. Thus, it should
be possible to diffuse the methane bomb, reverse ocean acidfication, and reduce
atmospheric greenhouse gases from the current 400+ ppm to pre-industrial levels
around 280 ppm, to help stabilize planetary systems.
This is possible because humans radiate photons at a wavelength
spectrum that causes photolysis (a
chemical reaction, breaking chemical compounds) of atmospheric water and oceanic
nitrates
(NO3−) and nitrites (NO2−), dissolved
inorganic nitrogen (DIN)) and nonliving dissolved organic matter (DOM), which are the
primary sources for producing hydroxyl (OH) radicals that are the primary cause
of both methane dissociation and the reversal of ocean acidity.
Chapter 5: Crisis & Revolution
Sustainability Model
Society and
the economy depend on a healthy environment.
A campaign is a strategic and motivational way to organize
change activity. It is strategic because it is a way to target effort. It is
motivational because it enacts an unfolding story of the hope that we can
achieve our objective. As it progresses, we find we can make a difference. Our
work acquires the urgency of genuine deadlines. The solidarity of collaborating
with others in a common cause energizes us.
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