Post #252 "What is This Thing Called Progress?"

Its funny, that what we see as 'progress', really isn't progress at all.
Our idea of Progress is more like Division.

Let's take a look:

 Going way back----to Wilderness and Civilization.
Where are we at?

 Civilization Wins!

Wilderness hardly exists at all anymore.

Some may say that this is Progress.

Some may not be so sure.

 

Will Progress be in effect when what was forest and few people,

way back, is now cement, people, and very few trees?
Is Progress a happening today, when way back when, before what we call civilization, no one
had to toil to survive, to plant crops and harvest,
 or keep Time on ticking instruments?

Way back when, there was no need for envy at the possessions of another,

There was no need to make war for the sake of claiming The Land.
There was no need of title or authority.
This all began with civilization

 

So how did this 'civilizing process', this claim to advancing, to this 'uni-goal' of Progress

get started and Why?

Progressing? Progressing to WHAT???? 

Advancing to What?

And what about Civilization?

Are we really Civilized?

Does Civilized mean not acting like animals?

Well-------maybe we should take another look.

Sometimes, in comparison, animals aren't really acting that badly.

If so, why do many of us consider a dog to be our best friend

or a cat to be our most dependable companion?

Actually progress seems a conflict of interests, a conflict of goals.
For instance, there is the goal of achieving civilization.
Perhaps this could be best expressed as bringing order.
Bringing all out of chaos and into peace, love, and harmony,
The end of Chaos-----we should be there by now,
but we are not.
It seems that instead of progressing to order, we have regressed to new
intensities of horror.
It seems we have regressed to even greater degrees of Chaos.

Most people of the civilized world would accept this overcoming of Chaos as their dream
and desire, and would, in a sense, Choose to work together to meet this end.
Or, at least, to pretend to work together.
Is this not the goal of religion and certainly of science and technology, to conquer Chaos?
How would one describe Chaos.
After many attempts at definitions, would Chaos not best be described as Death?
Is this not what we ultimately fear-----
Chaos............Death?
Is this not our insecurity?
Is this not our basic need of Survival?
And is Survival, not what we struggle and search for means of?
So it seems we could more accurately say that survival and Infiniteness
are our ultimate goal and that as we are on the way to achieving this,
we are Progressing?
----that we are a people of Progress.
Religion says we are.
Science/technology says we are?

What could possible interfere with this goal?
What could possibly work to off-set or even to prevent this goal from happening?
---from this Progress?
----this Progress to Order, to Peace, to Love, to harmony?
Is it possible that our dream, and our desire, has led us to Choose Chaos instead of Order?
Yet in our pseudo-reality, this seems to be a strong possibility,
as we live in a world of chaos.
So we have a dream for Order, for peace and harmony yet we live Chaos, in anxiety, in hatred,
and we torture and abuse.
Where does Consciousness come into this Choice----for peace or for chaos?
-----for it all surely begins here.
Consciousness is Aware of it-Self--------
Consciousness is Aware of Other.-------
Consciousness Chooses Order as in Peace, Love, Harmony
AND Chooses Chaos?!!
Consciousness must have Chosen Chaos!!

It would seem, then, that Order against Chaos would be the dream, desire, and Choice of the Collective Consciousness.
The problem is that this dream, this desire, and this Choice is being interfered with.
Something is occurring, within the Collective Consciousness,
that is preventing the Choice for Order and Survival
and is Choosing, instead Chaos as in Death, as in Finiteness. 

The interference is within the Collective Consciousness.
The interference has to do with the Choice of the Collective Consciousness.
The Choice of the Collective has, somehow, resulted, not in Order, but in Division.
Division is the process of Creation.
Creation is a process of Division.
This process of Division has lost Entity for Consciousness.
Consciousness Chose Division when Consciousness blocked out Reality
and Creation resulted.

Consciousness is not Entity.
Consciousness is a Collective of Parts and Pieces----
of Parts and Pieces of it-Self.
What has canceled out Entity for Consciousness is that which has resulted in Finiteness,
is that which has created Creation.
That which has interfered with and canceled out Entity for the Collective Consciousness
is Individual Choice.

This Choice should be a Collective Choice to the same goal that most would
consider as Progress.
In a sense, this is Creation.
A movement from a beginning to an ending.
This movement is referred to as a movement of fulfillment, to an accomplishment
of a goal,
to the fulfillment of the dream, to the desire of this fulfillment.
But then, why the chaos?
Why does it seem to be falling apart?
Why the destruction, in all its forms of competition, such as lusting for possession,
Identity, and Power over the Other?
Is this journey of destruction the plan to achieving, to Progressing, to the goal of
Peace and Harmony?
If the goal is the collective goal achieved through religion and science/technology,
of Peace and Harmony, why are we on the brink of
Ultimate Destruction?
Why should we destruct when we have done all the possible attempts to do the
opposite of destruct, the opposite being achieving Infinity?
Isn't Become Infinite the goal of religion and science and technology?
Isn't conquering death the Ultimate Goal and is it not strange that humanity
uses Death to Progress towards its goal of Infinity.
Of course this assumes Infinity in Peace and Harmony.
Now the tools to fighting Mortality have been religion and now, science---
the new religion.
And yet it seems that Progress, or what has been acclaimed as Progress, is really
been achieved through devices of destruction as abuse, as slavery, as torture,
as manipulation, as fighting and war.

The problem must lie the Choice of the Collective Consciousness.
The Choice must be frustrated in the Collective.
As noted, the Collective Consciousness is not Entity.
The Collective Consciousness is a Whole,
 BUT, it is a Whole made up of many parts and pieces of it-Self.
Consciousness, through Choice,
through Collective Choice and through Individual Choice
Here's the catch, each part and each piece, Chooses Collectively and Individually.
In this process of Choosing, Reality is lost.
In this process of Choosing, Consciousness Chooses Reality or Chooses to
Create.
In this process of Choosing, Reality Exists
as does Non-reality.
Non-reality is created in this process of Consciousness Choosing.
Consciousness's Choice does not affect Reality.
Consciousness's Choice brings Non-reality into Existence but only for Consciousness.
Non-reality can only Exist for Consciousness.

Within Consciousness there is great conflict.
Consequently, there is great conflict in humanity.
Consequently, there is great conflict within every human being that has Individually Chosen
to remain in the Collective Consciousness----Collectively having the same dream, the
same desire, and having made the same Choice.
Actually, every Individual Choice is the same Individual Choice.
Every Individual Choice has divided that part or that piece of Consciousness
against it-Self.
Self divides Self into the self of Self and the Other of Self.
Self of Self dependant on Other of Self for survival through self-sacrifice.

While the Dream and Desire of the Collective Consciousness are for Peace and
Harmony, Consciousness through the process of Division works against it-Self,
thereby destroying it-Self through its Dream, Desire, and Choice for Infinity.
Its Choice for Infinity is the Choice to Become God as Infiniteness is the Essence
of the Dream of Becoming-----------
of Becoming------of Progressing.

What are we Progressing to when we are torn between our Collective Choice for Peace,
Harmony, and Love and our Individual Choice to Become the total Possessor,
have the reigning Identity, and total power through civilization that created
The Law?