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If you would care to "elaborate" on the concept of 'Mind', then that in and of itself will SHOW how the or your misusing of WORDS prevents you, human beings, from OPENING up to NEW understanding. The VERY things that human beings do in the year 2018 is WHAT IS stopping them from OPENING up and learning new things and thus NOT gaining NEW understandings.
Your post was very inclusive which is good but hard to respond to without writing a book so I’ll concentrate on what I consider to be the key questions.
Universal mind as I see it is the interactions of universal laws. Life within the great universe consists of many living machines of differing qualities which react to these laws in accordance with the nature of their being. For example, a vegetable reacts according to its being while a worm reacts in accordance with its quality of being. Each creature of reaction acts in accordance with its quality of being defined by its level of inclusion of universal laws. Man is unique in that animal Man is a creature of REACTION with the evolutionary potential of becoming conscious Man: a creature capable of conscious ACTION.
As soon as you LEARN WHY you, human beings, are so closed, then you can PREVENT that from happening again, and thus WILL just remain completely OPEN, always. And, then you will be ABLE TO LEARN what True consciousness actually IS, and also what from True Conscious contemplation can also achieve.
Do you consider yourself human? If you do you must have experienced the human condition yourself. I know I’ve experienced what St. Paul describes in Romans 7:
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[d] a slave to the law of sin.
Sin in this sense is just “missing the mark.” We begin with an aim but it is lost to other desires so we’ve lost our aim.
So what? 'Heart' can refer to other things also. YOUR question was; What prevents the mind and heart from opening to new understanding of what should be normal for human "being?"
I see you asking, What prevents HUMAN BEINGS from opening to new understanding of what WILL BECOME normal, or NEW, understanding, or KNOWLEDGE for THE EVOLVED PAST human SPECIES of "beings".
The foundation for me is the recognition that I am a plurality lacking inner unity. Each moment is dominated by either thoughts, negative emotions, or bodily desires. These three are often unaware of each other. New understanding is impossible under these circumstances. Our understanding remains the same because it is created by the quality of imagination which reconciles the opposing demands of thought, emotions, and bodily desires. When imagination replaces consciousness the only thing that changes is conditioning. Indoctrination is not understanding
Bodily desires are natural as are thoughts. They should be reconciled by emotional quality. We have forgotten what it means. The problem isn’t physical desires but our fallen emotional nature which perverts them. We’ve even lost the capacity to experience the human attribute of objective conscience.
1948
"One never goes wrong following his feeling. I don’t mean emotions, I mean feeling, for feeling and intuition are one.” Albert Einstein, in Einstein and the Poet – In Search of the Cosmic Man by William Hermanns (Branden Press, 1983, p. 95. – conversation on September 14, 1948)
"We must make the individual man aware of his conscience so that he understands what it means that only a few will survive the next war. This man will be the cosmic man." Albert Einstein, in Einstein and the Poet – In Search of the Cosmic Man by William Hermanns (Branden Press, 1983, p. 99.)
Conscious evolution for Man is the the evolution of plurality into a quality of inner unity in which the conscious intellect, human feelings, and bodily abilities function as a unified whole. The fallen nature of emotional quality when dominant assures everything remains the same for the Great Beast. Only individuals with the need and courage to admit the human condition within themselves can begin on the path to conscious evolution. Humility isn’t hip.
Such ideas are hated by the world which worships self justifying imagination. The great teachers of the past like Plato tried to show the world the dangers of attachment to the superficial at the expense of psychologically opening to a universal perspective and what it deprives us of. That is why you will never read Plato’s cave discussed on secular sites without it being torn apart during the worship of fragmentation. The fallen human condition must be justified as the epitome of human intellect as opposed to being consciously experienced for what it is for us: when dominant that which creates attachments which pin people to existence in Plato’s cave.
Of course there are modern attempts to expand on the idea of inner unity made possible in a conscious higher level of reality but only a small minority will be open to them. It’s a shame but why not just support the small minority regardless of the growls it promotes?
The condition within human beings that appears to be upside down is just THE WAY human beings look at things. They do NOT look from a completely OPEN perspective. When they do look from a completely OPEN perspective, then ALL things become much, much clearer. Everything is the RIGHT way up and IS seen and UNDERSTOOD crystal clear.
Try it and tell me if you can do it. I know as a plurality I cannot be completely open since I struggle against myself.
Besides this is NOT just about human meaning, there is NO thing less, nor more, important than a human being, the fact is one does NOT have to consciously OPEN up, one just has to LEARN HOW to be always OPEN, first. Once that is LEARNED and thus KNOWN, then they can remain OPEN always, very simply and easily.
How did you learn to be always open? It is easy to say but for most when they try they experience how quickly they sink back into business as usual.
Basarab Nicolescu’s Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity is ahead of its time. It is too insulting to be taken seriously at a time when the glory of fragmentation is dominant
http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/Reviews/NicolescuReview.htm
After reading Nicolescu's Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, it is hard to imagine how any thinking person could retreat to the old, safe, comfortable conceptual framework. Taking a series of ideas that would be extremely thought-provoking even when considered one by one, the Romanian quantum physicist Basarab Nicolescu weaves them together in a stunning vision, this manifesto of the twenty-first century, so that they emerge as a shimmering, profoundly radical whole.
Nicolescu’s raison d’être is to help develop people’s consciousness by means of showing them how to approach things in terms of what he calls “transdisciplinarity.” He seeks to address head on the problem of fragmentation that plagues contemporary life. Nicolescu maintains that binary logic, the logic underlying most all of our social, economic, and political institutions, is not sufficient to encompass or address all human situations. His thinking aids in the unification of the scientific culture and the sacred, something which increasing numbers of persons, will find to be an enormous help, among them wholistic health practitioners seeking to promote the understanding of illness as something arising from the interwoven fabric—body, plus mind, plus spirit—that constitutes the whole human being, and academics frustrated by the increasing pressure to produce only so-called “value-free” material…………….
I’ve had to admit that the Great Beast is as it is and won’t change. War is just proof of our stupidity. However individuals can change and consciously develop. Their influence may tend to minimize the harmful cycles of life in Plato’s Cave.
