Don’t follow me; search the pattern of my walk to find your own path.
Yesterday I summarized afresh the concept of levels of awareness: This is merely a clinical expression of spiritual truth. (1) We are aware of the demands of our body. (2) We are aware of sensory data and process it with some measure of reason and logic. (3) We are aware of things intuitively; it’s not necessary to process concretely and logically to get valid results. It’s a sort of pattern recognition on the level of logical processing that shortcuts the formal process. (4) We are aware of moral demands from the Spirit Realm by developing a sensitivity to imperatives planted within us by the divine Presence. This awareness overrules mere reason.
They do tend to represent stages of development. For most people, the third level is on the way to the fourth. Some part of us is from birth capable of operating intuitively. The first step on that stage is learning to distinguish the forest from the trees. It’s beyond the analytical stage of aggregating things within a type. It’s recognizing the organic nature of truth as alive, something that you interact with individually because it recognizes you as unique. There is a certain portion of truth teaching that will not transfer to others, and so it should be.
Someone commented that the trio of siblings in AI’s Children exhibited a degree of sophistication and savvy that is very uncommon today. That was the whole point, of course, because I’ve seen something on that level in my work with kids, though not often enough. It manifested among a select few here and there, such as places like the American school sponsored by the US Embassy in Bonn, Germany (where I introduced the D.A.R.E. Program; I learned more than the kids did). Yes, it’s the kind of sophistication you get with politically connected wealthy families. Even among such, you’ll find a lot of pedestrian knot-heads, but you see savvy kids there more often than elsewhere.
It’s the kind of kid who smiles and waves even if you get their first name wrong. They wait to see if it matters, and then wait until they know how to approach you. They pick up on the subtleties of what is important in social stability, a form of highly advanced civility. It’s not so much native intelligence as social conditioning. The family background is the biggest single factor. It’s learning boundaries and absorbing the width and depth of society, not as sycophants, but as meaningful participants who can wait their turn. You certainly won’t get anything past them that they view as wrong, but they know how to react and not surrender more than they should.
You would hardly call it conformist because there is a strong agenda to live according to their values, which they constantly examine as well. But they plainly realize the rest of the world is not where they are, and make adjustments to account for that. They have a clear sense of mission and remain in touch with their own limits.
You can’t narrow this down to any short list of secret ingredients. It’s a complex of factors that see such brilliance arising by accident from poor families, too. However, this stuff can be taught. A critical element in being human is possessing a moral faculty, and the entire package is a matter of moral development. If you don’t process reality with a solid moral framework, you’ll spend your whole life lost in inner turmoil.
If there’s one thing bringing me to tears every day, it’s that people in my own household cannot be made to see what I see. It’s not the content so much as the means to focus with clarity on your own experience with reality. So deeply are they wedded to the mythology carefully constructed to keep them enslaved that they actively fear and hate what I suggest. Do you not realize this whole thing was done to us on purpose? The whole range of what passes for American culture is the result of deception, a well-documented plan to make us stupid and empty. Worse, they sold that shit to the rest of the world, so that far too much of humanity has been partially Americanized — meaning specifically to encourage vanity and truculent stupidity.
It’s not the content of our culture, but the structure and meaning that is passed on to chain the rest of the world to our moral depravity. Pick your flavor, but as long as it takes you down the same broad path of moral decline, it won’t matter. Well, the path out is still your own path, but that makes it of necessity narrow and steep by its very nature. The problem is not what’s on the Highway to Hell, but that it’s a highway.
The escape is still not a question of content. If I can entertain you by the content I offer, hopefully you’ll see beyond that to the underlying call to discover your true self. It’s not Bohemian rejection; that’s just another type of slavery, a pitiful reaction without departure. Don’t let the questions be formed by your context, but reach above the context thrown at you to your own frame of reference.
Most of our social problems today are mere symptoms of something much more serious.
