September 24, 2016
Summer has passed and we are on the threshold of the fall season ... a time to be thankful for the harvest and a time to prepare for the darkness of winter. Hmm! Sounds a bit ominous ... I believe we live in ominous times ... it doesn't help to stick our heads in the sand. Reminds me of the Third Secret of Fatima ... a significant milestone in my spiritual journey. How so? I was in Toronto staring at the ground in a parking lot ... I saw a postcard of a Lady who was crying ... picked up the card and was introduced to Our Lady of Fatima. On June 26, 2000 I left Lourdes France on my way to Fatima Portugal ... walking. I learned later that the Third Secret of Fatima which had been kept secret for more than 50 years was made public the same day I left Lourdes ... coincidence? Perhaps, yet another coincidence on top of this one ... when I arrived in Fatima about 10 weeks later I learned the text of the Third Secret after long frustrating and circuitous attempts. Here is the text ...
“J.M.J.
The third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fatima, on 13 July 1917.
I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.
After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.
Tuy-3-1-1944”.
Interpretation remains controversial ... in my view it speaks of the potential Apocalypse ... the crossroad ... the threshold humanity must soon work through.
I'm still very excited about my "biggy" of 12 years ago ... "Collective Unconscious to Collective Conscious to Collective Will." I feel compelled to repeat some comments written previously in my attempts to further explain what I mean by the above "biggy"
Summer has passed and we are on the threshold of the fall season ... a time to be thankful for the harvest and a time to prepare for the darkness of winter. Hmm! Sounds a bit ominous ... I believe we live in ominous times ... it doesn't help to stick our heads in the sand. Reminds me of the Third Secret of Fatima ... a significant milestone in my spiritual journey. How so? I was in Toronto staring at the ground in a parking lot ... I saw a postcard of a Lady who was crying ... picked up the card and was introduced to Our Lady of Fatima. On June 26, 2000 I left Lourdes France on my way to Fatima Portugal ... walking. I learned later that the Third Secret of Fatima which had been kept secret for more than 50 years was made public the same day I left Lourdes ... coincidence? Perhaps, yet another coincidence on top of this one ... when I arrived in Fatima about 10 weeks later I learned the text of the Third Secret after long frustrating and circuitous attempts. Here is the text ...
“J.M.J.
The third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fatima, on 13 July 1917.
I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.
After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.
Tuy-3-1-1944”.
Interpretation remains controversial ... in my view it speaks of the potential Apocalypse ... the crossroad ... the threshold humanity must soon work through.
I'm still very excited about my "biggy" of 12 years ago ... "Collective Unconscious to Collective Conscious to Collective Will." I feel compelled to repeat some comments written previously in my attempts to further explain what I mean by the above "biggy"
Here are some notes I wrote in the summer of 2005 ... I was living in Pond Inlet at the time. The photo provides a visual aid for the composition of an iceberg ... 90 percent of the iceberg is hidden ... just like our subconscious ... which is apparently 90 percent of our mind and we are unable to access it or determine the totality of what is contained in our subconscious... what a mystery?
"Seems I had one of these kind of experiences again today ... I dropped what I was doing to go and see the 'iceberg' ... I had looked out my kitchen window and it appeared as though the iceberg was right up on shore ... this image seemed to ignite a 'curiosity' ... an excitement' ... in my inner being ... I felt compelled to go and have a look.
It's only about a 15 minute walk to the shore ... as I was getting closer I could see that the iceberg was still quite a distance from shore ... yet closer than it has been ... a truly awesome sight ... see we are compensated a bit for the 'cold' we endure up here :-)
For some reason ... as I was walking I started to meditate ... this happens to me regularly ... my mind wanders off somewhere :-) ... and sometimes comes back with 'sensible stuff' ... and sometimes with 'junk' :-)
This morning the 'fruit' of my meditation' seemed sensible ... and seemed relevant ... it suddenly occurred to me that the iceberg is symbolic of life ... apparently only about 10 percent of the iceberg is visible ... the remaining 90 percent is below the water and out of our vision capabilities ... hmmm
Seems to me our 'life' is about the same ... what we know about life is a small percentage of the 'whole' ... what we do not know is obviously beyond our physical sense preceptors ... our human capabilities including all modern science etc etc
Seems this reality has been known to mankind since the beginning of time ... all cultures in all geographies ... for all of history ... have their legends ... their religions ... their myths ... etc etc to explain the 90 percent we really can't know or see
Seems man has always had an insatiable curiosity ... imagination etc etc ... and also seems we are not able to live with an 'closed door' ... something that we know is ... but we do not know what it is ... the 'fear' of the unknown ... the solution to this throughout the ages seems to have been religion ... legend ... etc etc"
Here is some background information ...
Carl Jung and the Collective Unconscious
Carl Jung was a student and follower of Freud. He was born in a small town in Switzerland in 1875 and all his life was fascinated by folk tales, myths and religious stories. Although he had a close friendship with Freud early in their relationship, his independent and questioning mind soon caused a break.
Jung did not accept Freud’s contention that the primary motivation behind behavior was sexual urges. Instead of Freud’s instinctual drives of sex and aggression, Jung believed that people are motivated by a more general psychological energy that pushes them to achieve psychological growth, self-realization., psychic wholeness and harmony. Also, unlike Freud, he believed that personality continues to develop throughout the lifespan.
It is for his ideas of the collective unconscious that students of literature and mythology are indebted to Jung. In studying different cultures, he was struck by the universality of many themes, patterns, stories and images. These same images, he found, frequently appeared in the dreams of his patients. From these observations, Jung developed his theory of the collective unconscious and the archetypes.
Like Freud, Jung posited the existence of a conscious and an unconscious mind. A model that psychologists frequently use here is an iceberg. The part of the iceberg that is above the surface of the water is seen as the conscious mind. Consciousness is the part of the mind we know directly. It is where we think, feel, sense and intuit. It is through conscious activity that the person becomes an individual. It’s the part of the mind that we “live in” most of the time, and contains information that is in our immediate awareness Below the level of the conscious mind, and the bulk of the ice berg, is what Freud would call the unconscious, and what Jung would call the “personal unconscious.” Here we will find thoughts, feelings, urges and other information that is difficult to bring to consciousness. Experiences that do not reach consciousness, experiences that are not congruent with who we think we are, and things that have become “repressed” would make up the material at this level. The contents of the personal unconscious are available through hypnosis, guided imagery, and especially dreams. Although not directly accessible, material in the personal unconscious has gotten there sometime during our lifetime. For example, the reason you are going to school now, why you picked a particular shirt to wear or your choice of a career may be a choice you reached consciously. But it is also possible that education, career, or clothing style has been influenced by a great deal of unconscious material: parents’ preferences, childhood experiences, even movies you have seen but about which you do not think when you make choices or decisions. Thus, the depth psychologist would say that many decisions, indeed some of the most important ones that have to do with choosing a mate or a career, are determined by unconscious factors. But still, material in the personal unconscious has been environmentally determined.
What is the Collective Unconscious
The collective unconscious is different. It’s like eye color. If someone were to ask you, “How did you get your eye color,” you would have to say that there was no choice involved – conscious or unconscious. You inherited it. Material in the collective unconscious is like this: inherited. It never came from our current environment. It is the part of the mind that is determined by heredity. So we inherit, as part of our humanity, a collective unconscious; the mind is pre-figured by evolution just as is the body. The individual is linked to the past of the whole species and the long stretch of evolution of the organism. Jung thus placed the psyche within the evolutionary process.
What’s in the collective unconscious? Psychological archetypes. This idea of psychological archetypes is among Jung’s most important contributions to Western thought. An ancient idea somewhat like Plato’s idea of Forms or “patterns” in the divine mind that determine the form material objects will take, the archetype is in all of us. The word “archetype” comes from the Greek “arche” meaning “first, and “type” meaning “imprint or pattern.” Psychological archetypes are thus first prints, or patterns that form the basic blueprint for major dynamic counterparts of the human personality. For Jung, archetypes pre-exist in the collective unconscious of humanity. They repeat themselves eternally in the psyches of human beings and they determine how we both perceive and behave. These patterns are inborn within us. They are part of our inheritance as human beings. They reside as energy within the collective unconscious and are part the psychological life of all peoples everywhere at all times. They are inside us and they are outside us. We can meet them by going inward to our dreams or fantasies. We can meet them by going outward to our myths, legends, literature and religions. The archetype can be a pattern, such as a kind of story. Or it can be a figure, such as a kind of character
What Is Collective Consciousness? Collective consciousness is a mode of awareness that emerges at the first trans-personal stage of consciousness, when our identities expand beyond our egos. A crucial capacity that accompanies this awareness is the ability to intuitively sense and work with the interactions between our and others’ energy fields, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. For example, just as Gene Rodenberry imagined a future where Star Trek’s Spock could “mind meld” with others, more of us are now becoming aware of our capacity not only to intuit each other’s thoughts and emotions, but also to consciously think and create together without communicating through our five senses.
September 25, 2016
Today is Sunday ... Sundays are pretty much just like any other day in Haiyang. There is no Catholic church in or near Haiyang so no participation in any Catholic rituals such as mass on Sunday morning. In any event, the one hour a week ritual doesn't do so much towards maintaining or improving a spiritual life. I still usually read the Sunday readings on Saturday or Sunday ... not often influenced much ... inspired much ... by the readings or Father Karban's commentary on the Sunday Readings.
Today seems to be an exception. Today's readings deal with the Biblical story of Lazarus the beggar who for much of his life apparently sat outside the gate of a wealthy family. Some new thoughts popped into my head today. Today my mind dwelt on the notion of "pedigree" ... our genetic lineage ... as a manifestation of stature ... wealth ... on "pedigree" in reference to the wealthy family in the Biblical story.
The word pedigree is usually associated with animals like horses, cows, dogs and so on. Yet the more important in terms of life on our planet has always been the "pedigree(s)" within humanity. The notion of pedigree allowed trans-generational transfer of wealth, power and so on ... still does. Pedigree certainly has never guaranteed the trans-generational transfer of desirable human characteristics such as intelligence, empathy and so on. Some notable exceptions are:
I became conscious of my pedigree at a very young age ... I'm not talking about the names and faces of my ancestors ... I only know of 3 generations on my mother's side and 5 generations on my father's side. Perhaps this is the main factor for my excitement when visiting the Kong family cemetery in Qufu ... the cemetery has the tombstones of 75 generations ... in one place ... surviving 2,500 years of nature and mankind ... truly amazing!.
The personal 'pedigree' I was referring to is more akin to what we call the 'pecking order' in a flock of chickens:
"The pecking order is, literally, determined by pecking. Bigger, stronger, and more aggressive chickens bully their way to the top of the flock by pecking the others into submission with their pointy beaks. First they strut about, fluff their feathers, and squawk, but if that doesn’t get the point across, they peck. It can get violent. Sometimes blood is drawn; occasionally, the opponent is killed."
The same behavior patterns likely existed within humanity in antiquity. Somewhere along the road someone discovered a means of preserving the 'pecking order' for future generations ... tribes, clans, city states, nation states ... global village. The preservation no longer depended on physical size or strength.
It's an example of learning without words ... my parents never taught me anything about pedigree ... I learned it through osmosis ... simply by becoming aware of the people in my little world ... and their behavior. If one thinks of pedigree as a tall ladder ... I knew I wasn't on the bottom rung ... also knew I wasn't near the top rung. Seems this is a vivid example of Karl Marx's claim ... “It’s not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness”
I became conscious of my pedigree through observation of human social behavior. Seems to me this is the experience of most people. In some cases along the entire spectrum of pedigree some children's knowledge or understanding of their family pedigree is reinforced through parental teaching, keen observation of their living environment ... mansion versus mud hut ... and so on.
How important is pedigree?
Today it feels like human pedigree has always been and continues today as the agency that assured the continuous existence of dominant Yang energy. In the early stages of human existence male aggression, strength , courage and so on was absolutely necessary ... male humans had to kill other species of life on the planet to assure their own survival ... simply for food! As well the males had to protect their families from being killed for food by other species.
With the advent of the agricultural age and the domestication of animals ... a long, long time ago ... seems logical that the human species no longer required this continuous Yang energy dominance. Yet it persisted. Why? A simple answer is ... to preserve the privilege of the few ... this situation exists still today. The notion of pedigree has by and large been the single most important factor in the world evolving to where it is today ... whether one takes today's circumstances as good or bad.
Today, we hear a lot about hegemon and hegemony ... both are issues of pedigree. There is no pedigree in nation states ...however, pedigree remains very much alive and pedigree to a large extent exercises control over nation states. There remains many monarchs in the world and even in Chine many current leaders are labelled "princelings" because of their genetic lineage to the early leaders of Communism in China.
Looking back, perhaps all empires disappeared due to their reliance on 'pedigree' to preserve the empire(s). One might argue that China is an exception to this pattern ... some argue that China is the only surviving indigenous civilization in the world. For much of China's history, meritocracy was almost as important as pedigree ... in some cases... more important.
I found this article interesting ... October 2, 2016 = Elul 29, 5776: HUGE Window of Opportunity and/or Collapse
1) It included some discussion of the notion of "pedigree' and trans-generation preservation.:
This single dynamic allowed them to create a worldwide money monopoly by which they came to exert total financial control over the business of the whole world. The Rothschild's and Rockefeller's, Goldman's and Sachs, Warburgs and Schiffs are all banking families who represent this multi-generational pattern of bank ownership and control."
2) These 3 sentences:
"Were the truth to be known, very few would even get up in the morning, much less go to work. Hence, there is now a dire need to make things right in the world of men.
That can only be done when a critical mass of collective consciousness so wills it. (Sounds a lot like my "biggy" ... Collective Unconscious to Collective Conscious to Collective Will)
That time is now … or at least getting closer by the second."
As I have mentioned several times I no longer see the above kind of remarks as fear mongering ... it is simply that the appointed time has come ... and like child birth ... when the appointed time comes the infant must travel down the birth canal (dark, unknown and painful) or die in the mother's womb.
.
"Seems I had one of these kind of experiences again today ... I dropped what I was doing to go and see the 'iceberg' ... I had looked out my kitchen window and it appeared as though the iceberg was right up on shore ... this image seemed to ignite a 'curiosity' ... an excitement' ... in my inner being ... I felt compelled to go and have a look.
It's only about a 15 minute walk to the shore ... as I was getting closer I could see that the iceberg was still quite a distance from shore ... yet closer than it has been ... a truly awesome sight ... see we are compensated a bit for the 'cold' we endure up here :-)
For some reason ... as I was walking I started to meditate ... this happens to me regularly ... my mind wanders off somewhere :-) ... and sometimes comes back with 'sensible stuff' ... and sometimes with 'junk' :-)
This morning the 'fruit' of my meditation' seemed sensible ... and seemed relevant ... it suddenly occurred to me that the iceberg is symbolic of life ... apparently only about 10 percent of the iceberg is visible ... the remaining 90 percent is below the water and out of our vision capabilities ... hmmm
Seems to me our 'life' is about the same ... what we know about life is a small percentage of the 'whole' ... what we do not know is obviously beyond our physical sense preceptors ... our human capabilities including all modern science etc etc
Seems this reality has been known to mankind since the beginning of time ... all cultures in all geographies ... for all of history ... have their legends ... their religions ... their myths ... etc etc to explain the 90 percent we really can't know or see
Seems man has always had an insatiable curiosity ... imagination etc etc ... and also seems we are not able to live with an 'closed door' ... something that we know is ... but we do not know what it is ... the 'fear' of the unknown ... the solution to this throughout the ages seems to have been religion ... legend ... etc etc"
Here is some background information ...
Carl Jung and the Collective Unconscious
Carl Jung was a student and follower of Freud. He was born in a small town in Switzerland in 1875 and all his life was fascinated by folk tales, myths and religious stories. Although he had a close friendship with Freud early in their relationship, his independent and questioning mind soon caused a break.
Jung did not accept Freud’s contention that the primary motivation behind behavior was sexual urges. Instead of Freud’s instinctual drives of sex and aggression, Jung believed that people are motivated by a more general psychological energy that pushes them to achieve psychological growth, self-realization., psychic wholeness and harmony. Also, unlike Freud, he believed that personality continues to develop throughout the lifespan.
It is for his ideas of the collective unconscious that students of literature and mythology are indebted to Jung. In studying different cultures, he was struck by the universality of many themes, patterns, stories and images. These same images, he found, frequently appeared in the dreams of his patients. From these observations, Jung developed his theory of the collective unconscious and the archetypes.
Like Freud, Jung posited the existence of a conscious and an unconscious mind. A model that psychologists frequently use here is an iceberg. The part of the iceberg that is above the surface of the water is seen as the conscious mind. Consciousness is the part of the mind we know directly. It is where we think, feel, sense and intuit. It is through conscious activity that the person becomes an individual. It’s the part of the mind that we “live in” most of the time, and contains information that is in our immediate awareness Below the level of the conscious mind, and the bulk of the ice berg, is what Freud would call the unconscious, and what Jung would call the “personal unconscious.” Here we will find thoughts, feelings, urges and other information that is difficult to bring to consciousness. Experiences that do not reach consciousness, experiences that are not congruent with who we think we are, and things that have become “repressed” would make up the material at this level. The contents of the personal unconscious are available through hypnosis, guided imagery, and especially dreams. Although not directly accessible, material in the personal unconscious has gotten there sometime during our lifetime. For example, the reason you are going to school now, why you picked a particular shirt to wear or your choice of a career may be a choice you reached consciously. But it is also possible that education, career, or clothing style has been influenced by a great deal of unconscious material: parents’ preferences, childhood experiences, even movies you have seen but about which you do not think when you make choices or decisions. Thus, the depth psychologist would say that many decisions, indeed some of the most important ones that have to do with choosing a mate or a career, are determined by unconscious factors. But still, material in the personal unconscious has been environmentally determined.
What is the Collective Unconscious
The collective unconscious is different. It’s like eye color. If someone were to ask you, “How did you get your eye color,” you would have to say that there was no choice involved – conscious or unconscious. You inherited it. Material in the collective unconscious is like this: inherited. It never came from our current environment. It is the part of the mind that is determined by heredity. So we inherit, as part of our humanity, a collective unconscious; the mind is pre-figured by evolution just as is the body. The individual is linked to the past of the whole species and the long stretch of evolution of the organism. Jung thus placed the psyche within the evolutionary process.
What’s in the collective unconscious? Psychological archetypes. This idea of psychological archetypes is among Jung’s most important contributions to Western thought. An ancient idea somewhat like Plato’s idea of Forms or “patterns” in the divine mind that determine the form material objects will take, the archetype is in all of us. The word “archetype” comes from the Greek “arche” meaning “first, and “type” meaning “imprint or pattern.” Psychological archetypes are thus first prints, or patterns that form the basic blueprint for major dynamic counterparts of the human personality. For Jung, archetypes pre-exist in the collective unconscious of humanity. They repeat themselves eternally in the psyches of human beings and they determine how we both perceive and behave. These patterns are inborn within us. They are part of our inheritance as human beings. They reside as energy within the collective unconscious and are part the psychological life of all peoples everywhere at all times. They are inside us and they are outside us. We can meet them by going inward to our dreams or fantasies. We can meet them by going outward to our myths, legends, literature and religions. The archetype can be a pattern, such as a kind of story. Or it can be a figure, such as a kind of character
What Is Collective Consciousness? Collective consciousness is a mode of awareness that emerges at the first trans-personal stage of consciousness, when our identities expand beyond our egos. A crucial capacity that accompanies this awareness is the ability to intuitively sense and work with the interactions between our and others’ energy fields, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. For example, just as Gene Rodenberry imagined a future where Star Trek’s Spock could “mind meld” with others, more of us are now becoming aware of our capacity not only to intuit each other’s thoughts and emotions, but also to consciously think and create together without communicating through our five senses.
September 25, 2016
Today is Sunday ... Sundays are pretty much just like any other day in Haiyang. There is no Catholic church in or near Haiyang so no participation in any Catholic rituals such as mass on Sunday morning. In any event, the one hour a week ritual doesn't do so much towards maintaining or improving a spiritual life. I still usually read the Sunday readings on Saturday or Sunday ... not often influenced much ... inspired much ... by the readings or Father Karban's commentary on the Sunday Readings.
Today seems to be an exception. Today's readings deal with the Biblical story of Lazarus the beggar who for much of his life apparently sat outside the gate of a wealthy family. Some new thoughts popped into my head today. Today my mind dwelt on the notion of "pedigree" ... our genetic lineage ... as a manifestation of stature ... wealth ... on "pedigree" in reference to the wealthy family in the Biblical story.
The word pedigree is usually associated with animals like horses, cows, dogs and so on. Yet the more important in terms of life on our planet has always been the "pedigree(s)" within humanity. The notion of pedigree allowed trans-generational transfer of wealth, power and so on ... still does. Pedigree certainly has never guaranteed the trans-generational transfer of desirable human characteristics such as intelligence, empathy and so on. Some notable exceptions are:
- Edward VIII of England gave up his throne to England and India in order to marry an American woman.
- Gautama Buddha ... the original Buddha refused the throne for an ascetic life.
- St Francis of Assisi renounced his bourgeois family for the ascetic life.
- The struggle in Islam is centered on the question of pedigree.
I became conscious of my pedigree at a very young age ... I'm not talking about the names and faces of my ancestors ... I only know of 3 generations on my mother's side and 5 generations on my father's side. Perhaps this is the main factor for my excitement when visiting the Kong family cemetery in Qufu ... the cemetery has the tombstones of 75 generations ... in one place ... surviving 2,500 years of nature and mankind ... truly amazing!.
The personal 'pedigree' I was referring to is more akin to what we call the 'pecking order' in a flock of chickens:
"The pecking order is, literally, determined by pecking. Bigger, stronger, and more aggressive chickens bully their way to the top of the flock by pecking the others into submission with their pointy beaks. First they strut about, fluff their feathers, and squawk, but if that doesn’t get the point across, they peck. It can get violent. Sometimes blood is drawn; occasionally, the opponent is killed."
The same behavior patterns likely existed within humanity in antiquity. Somewhere along the road someone discovered a means of preserving the 'pecking order' for future generations ... tribes, clans, city states, nation states ... global village. The preservation no longer depended on physical size or strength.
It's an example of learning without words ... my parents never taught me anything about pedigree ... I learned it through osmosis ... simply by becoming aware of the people in my little world ... and their behavior. If one thinks of pedigree as a tall ladder ... I knew I wasn't on the bottom rung ... also knew I wasn't near the top rung. Seems this is a vivid example of Karl Marx's claim ... “It’s not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness”
I became conscious of my pedigree through observation of human social behavior. Seems to me this is the experience of most people. In some cases along the entire spectrum of pedigree some children's knowledge or understanding of their family pedigree is reinforced through parental teaching, keen observation of their living environment ... mansion versus mud hut ... and so on.
How important is pedigree?
Today it feels like human pedigree has always been and continues today as the agency that assured the continuous existence of dominant Yang energy. In the early stages of human existence male aggression, strength , courage and so on was absolutely necessary ... male humans had to kill other species of life on the planet to assure their own survival ... simply for food! As well the males had to protect their families from being killed for food by other species.
With the advent of the agricultural age and the domestication of animals ... a long, long time ago ... seems logical that the human species no longer required this continuous Yang energy dominance. Yet it persisted. Why? A simple answer is ... to preserve the privilege of the few ... this situation exists still today. The notion of pedigree has by and large been the single most important factor in the world evolving to where it is today ... whether one takes today's circumstances as good or bad.
Today, we hear a lot about hegemon and hegemony ... both are issues of pedigree. There is no pedigree in nation states ...however, pedigree remains very much alive and pedigree to a large extent exercises control over nation states. There remains many monarchs in the world and even in Chine many current leaders are labelled "princelings" because of their genetic lineage to the early leaders of Communism in China.
Looking back, perhaps all empires disappeared due to their reliance on 'pedigree' to preserve the empire(s). One might argue that China is an exception to this pattern ... some argue that China is the only surviving indigenous civilization in the world. For much of China's history, meritocracy was almost as important as pedigree ... in some cases... more important.
I found this article interesting ... October 2, 2016 = Elul 29, 5776: HUGE Window of Opportunity and/or Collapse
1) It included some discussion of the notion of "pedigree' and trans-generation preservation.:
This single dynamic allowed them to create a worldwide money monopoly by which they came to exert total financial control over the business of the whole world. The Rothschild's and Rockefeller's, Goldman's and Sachs, Warburgs and Schiffs are all banking families who represent this multi-generational pattern of bank ownership and control."
2) These 3 sentences:
"Were the truth to be known, very few would even get up in the morning, much less go to work. Hence, there is now a dire need to make things right in the world of men.
That can only be done when a critical mass of collective consciousness so wills it. (Sounds a lot like my "biggy" ... Collective Unconscious to Collective Conscious to Collective Will)
That time is now … or at least getting closer by the second."
As I have mentioned several times I no longer see the above kind of remarks as fear mongering ... it is simply that the appointed time has come ... and like child birth ... when the appointed time comes the infant must travel down the birth canal (dark, unknown and painful) or die in the mother's womb.
.