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EVOLUTION
Prose
Poems
Copyright
©
2011 John O'Loughlin
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CONTENTS
1.
No
Absolute Knowledge
2.
Ladies
and Gentlemen
3.
Canine
Nemesis
4.
Sunday
Worst
5.
An
Electron Bias
6.
From Absolute Evil to Absolute Good
7.
A
Journey beyond Myths
8.
An
Evolutionary Bias
9.
Evolution
10.
From Rock to Jazz
11.
The
Omega Instrument
12.
Electron
Freedoms
13.
National
Paradoxes
14.
The
Machine
15.
Supernatural
Voyeurism
16.
Spiritual
Cultivation
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NO
ABSOLUTE
KNOWLEDGE
Man
can
have
a relative knowledge of God, but he cannot know or experience God
personally. He can come to the
conclusion, through careful logical reasonings,
that
God
would be the ultimate spiritual globe when all separate globes of
pure
spirit, from whichever part of the Universe, had converged towards one
another
in the future post-millennial Beyond, but he cannot know what it would
actually
be
like to be a part of that ultimate globe himself - what the
condition of supreme being would actually be
like to
the experiencing mind. In fact, there
would be no 'part' of God, because one great indivisible transcendence. No man can get anywhere near fathoming
exactly what the condition of such an ultimate globe of transcendent
spirit
would actually be
like. Man has but a small,
relatively humble spirit which, in any case, is polluted by the flesh
and
dependent on the flesh for its survival.
He can only acquire, at the best of times, a vague intimation of
what
that supreme condition of being would actually be
like. Yet he has often mistaken his vague
intimation for absolute knowledge of God in the past!
Such exaggerations were perhaps a form of
compensation for his earthly shortcomings.
Relative knowledge of God
takes the form of
logical reasonings concerning the outcome
of
evolution, and should not be confused with those vague intimations of supreme being which saints and other fortunate
human beings
have occasionally experienced in the past.
Such intimations appertain to a stronger influx of human spirit
upon a
person, and are at a considerable remove from what God would literally be
like in
the post-millennial Beyond. The
experience of infused contemplation would not have led the recipient to
apperceive God, but, on the contrary, to apperceive his own quota of
spirit
more clearly and intensely than would ordinarily have been the case. One might define this experience as an
indirect, rather partial glimpse of Heaven.
Is it possible, I wonder,
that Spiritual
Globes already exist in the heavenly Beyond?
Relative knowledge of God, based on cogent reasoning, should
enable one
to answer this question affirmatively.
Yes, I believe that such globes could
exist in
the heavenly Beyond, which is to say in space considered as a setting
for a
more advanced absolute than the stars.... Though their existence there
would
not constitute God but globes of pure spirit en
route, as it were, to
the possibility of an ultimate Spiritual Globe, which could only come
to pass
with the fusion, following convergence, of all such
globes into
ultimate unity, the unity of what Teilhard
de Chardin calls the Omega Point. Since we haven't got anywhere near
transcendence yet, we can be confident that an ultimate Spiritual
Globe,
comprised of all spiritual contributions throughout the Universe,
doesn't
exist.
Nevertheless we would be
mistaken, I believe, to assume that such
individual globes of
transcendent spirit as may exist there, by dint of the possible
spiritual
contributions made by more advanced planets than our own elsewhere in
the
Universe, exert no beneficial influence upon ourselves.
There is no reason why those nearest to us,
which may yet be millions of miles away, shouldn't to some extent draw
our
spirit slightly towards them. For if
they attract and converge towards one another in the heavenly Beyond,
they must
surely have some tangential attractive influence on what is best in us
- namely
our spirit. This proposition doesn't,
however, discount the part played by human struggle in the evolutionary
journey. A pulling teleological argument
would not have much credence on its own.
We must bear in mind the pushing evolutionary one as well,
though we may
be excused, in this day and age, for turning against astrological
determinism,
which is really the opposite of teleological freedom.
LADIES
AND
GENTLEMEN
A
lady
is both beautiful and discreet,
cultured and intelligent. She doesn't
desire to be kissed in public,
nor does she object to one's disinclination there to hold her hand or
put an
arm round her waist. One keeps one's
hands in one's pockets, and the lady may place a hand on one's nearest
arm if
she so desires. This is perfectly
logical, for it confirms the female's right to a more openly sensual
stance.
A lady will usually wear
dark clothes,
though she may use bright colours in moderation, either occasionally or
regularly, on top or underneath, on her clothing or as a part of it. Black underclothes are the least
seductive
of colours for a female to wear - yellow or red, by contrast, the most. A lady will generally prefer the former to
the latter, spurning flagrant seductions.
Ladies occasionally wear
make-up but they
use it discreetly, never glaringly or with ostentatious intent. Before man made art partly
transcendental,
he painted his body, and the less-evolved women still do a variation on
the
same theme. No wonder ladies are careful
not to draw attention to themselves in this
way! They prefer to allow their natural
beauty to
speak for itself, and are glad when gentlemen admire them for other
than purely
sexual reasons.
As for their hair, ladies
are careful not
to let it grow too long, and therefore prefer to have it regularly cut. When their hair is
long and
fine, they will take especial pains to tie it up on or near the crown
of their
head, which makes for a more civilized appearance.
Very often a lady's hair is dark,
approximating more, in appearance, to the essence of transcendent
spirit than
to the brightness of the sun. A
gentleman, when of spiritual cast, will generally prefer a dark-haired
lady to
a blonde - contrary to popular myth. He
will also require of his lady that she remains slim, and doubtless most
ladies,
being of slender build, are perfectly able to do so.
Slenderness is, after all, an indication of a
spiritual predilection, a reflection of a more spiritual constitution.
A lady will never wear
anything blatantly
seductive, like a very short skirt or see-through blouse.
She will dress discreetly, hiding her more
obvious physical charms from the vulgar eye.
No-one should be able to point at a gentleman in public and say:
"You can see what it is about her
that he
likes!"
A gentleman is above all
things gentle, not
coarse, brutal, violent, or boorish. He
never slams doors but shuts them quietly, with due presence of mind. He would never dream of using physical
violence against an opponent in an argument, intellectual or otherwise,
but
will confine himself, at the worst of times, to mental violence -
should such
violence be unavoidable. Gentlemen are
occasionally subjected to physical violence by men but, if they survive
it, can
always sue for assault. A threat of
suing an ungentlemanly potential assailant
for
assault may serve as a useful deterrent, and is, besides, a form of
mental
violence.
A gentleman rarely or never
moves quickly
or acts rashly, but takes his time, is langsam,
to
cite
Nietzsche, for reasons of propriety, since he should more approximate,
in his
conduct, to being than to doing. A
gentleman will spend most of his time sitting still, whether at work or
at
play. He won't be one to engage in
active sports!
As for clothing, a
gentleman's clothes are
mostly dark rather than ostentatious or trendy.
He will generally prefer to keep most of his clothes on, even in
hot
weather, and will never venture out in winter without adequate
protection
against the elements. He doesn't like to
be brought into too close a contact with rain, and will usually possess
the
means of protecting himself from direct contact with it.
Men think that braving the rain bare-headed
is a sign of manliness, and tend to regard umbrellas and hoods as
unworthy of
masculine vanity. They don't realize, as
a rule, that a gentleman's reluctance to get his head wet stems from a
transcendental bias, opposing its upholder to brute contact with the
elements.
In sexual matters, gentlemen
are usually
moderate, preferring, of the two alternatives, to reduce their sexual
commitments to a minimum than to increase them towards a maximum. Their ladies are generally resigned to a less
vigorous sex-life.
Ladies and gentlemen have
existed for
centuries and will doubtless continue to exist, so long as the human
race
survives. There is no reason to suppose
that social progress will put an end to them, though it may oppose
certain
kinds of ladies and gentlemen whose lifestyles are insufficiently
modern. What social progress would really
like to do,
over a period of decades or even centuries, is to transform as many
people as
possible into ladies and gentlemen by improving the quality of life on
as
equalitarian a basis as possible. It
would be real progress if, instead of men and gentlemen or women and
ladies,
the great majority of people in the future were ladies and gentlemen in
the
best sense of the words - the ladies discreet and the gentlemen gentle.
CANINE
NEMESIS
Oh,
but
a
civilization that tolerates dogs isn't a particularly advanced one! It is tied to the pagan roots of life in an
atomic integrity, and consequently takes dogs for granted.
I, however, abhor dogs and
would approve of
their eventual removal. Some day a
post-atomic civilization will arise, and when it does there should be
no more
shit on pavements, no more piss on walls, no more coarse, loud, and
regular
barking, no more dozing advertisements for subconscious stupor, no more
scratching of fleas on smelly bodies, no more public exhibitions of
primeval
sexuality, nor any more examples of a number of similarly disagreeable
phenomena!
Ah, I long passionately for
the higher
civilization, I who sometimes wonder whether the existing levels of
civilization, with their semi-barbarous attachments, won't drag on and
on for
ever! Some day, however, beasts will be
removed, not just dogs, but cats, horses, hamsters, ponies, and other
unnecessary
animals, and man will be freed from association with them.
He cannot love beasts and turn towards the
future millennial Beyond at the same time. A transcendental civilization would know what
needed to be done to minimize the influence of the beastly and set men
directly
on course for the post-human millennium - that earthly paradise
preceding the
heavenly one. Its chief upholders would
teach the People the necessary lessons, making it perfectly clear to
them just
why such animals as dogs and cats had to be left behind, banished, in a
judgemental spirit, from the higher society, in response to
evolutionary logic.
Of course, some people would
object and be
recalcitrant. But the great majority
would approve of measures designed to further evolutionary progress. Even now, the great majority of people aren't
pet owners, certainly not dog owners, and many of them could only
approve of
measures designed to free them from the various inconveniences to which
dogs
give rise in everyday life, including the noise of barking and the
smell and
sight of excrement. Too bad if they live
in the dualistic or transitional civilizations and not in the future
post-dualistic one! Even post-dualistic
barbarians have to put-up with dogs - assuming they aren't dog owners
but dogless humans.
Well, as a writer, I cannot
change anything
at present. But if I were given the
power I would certainly change things in the future, taking measures to
bring
society into line with post-dualistic requirement on the level of an
ultimate
civilization. Naturally, some people
would now think me mad, but I know that what inferior minds often take
for
madness in others can be a superior form of sanity, pertaining to a
mind
capable of envisaging future developments through utilization of a
higher
logic. Well, a transcendental
civilization may be some way off at present, but, believe me,
a time will come when to own a dog would be a crime against the Holy
Spirit!
SUNDAY
WORST
It
is
curious
how on Sundays, the day of rest, so many people dress in their
best
clothes. In fact, it is especially
curious how church-goers make a point of dressing as smartly as
possible. Do they ordinarily dress
shabbily during the
week? No, I don't think so; though they
may dress informally in the evenings and on Saturdays, especially if
they are
staying at home. Why, then, do they wear
their best clothes on Sunday? No doubt,
being seen in public is one reason, since smart clothes help to create
a good
impression on others and make people feel pleased to be in
one-another's
company. But there is, I feel sure, a
deeper reason, which has to do with stressing the apparent rather than
the
essential.
A Christian, being a
dualist, isn't just a
man of essence, or spiritual striving; he is also a man of appearance,
or
sartorial smartness. It would be
unthinkable for him to attend church on Sundays dressed in shabby old
clothes,
like a tramp. He doesn't cultivate
essence to a point where appearance becomes a matter of indifference,
if not
contempt, to him. Appearance is
important,
because it corresponds to the sensual, active side of Christian dualism. In church, he may cultivate the spiritual or
passive side of that dualistic integrity, but not with a shabby
appearance!
It would therefore be
strange if, on
Sundays, people went to church looking like tramps.
And yet, in another sense, it would be
spiritually significant if they were to do so, since reflecting an
indifference
to appearances in deference to essential priorities.
How refreshing it would be if, for just one
day a week, people demonstrated their contempt for appearances in
allegiance to
essence! If, instead of going to church
in their 'Sunday best', they all dressed in their 'Sunday worst' and
purposely
avoided taking offence at one-another's shabby appearances, as they
concentrated their attention, if only for an hour, on the cultivation
of
spirit!
Ah, so refreshing a change! And yet such an attitude would more
correspond to a transcendentally post-dualistic integrity than to a
Christian
dualistic one, for which not a church but a meditation centre would be
the most
logical choice of venue. Christians,
surely, have never adopted such a policy, and neither are they ever
likely
to! Sunday for them will continue to be
a day when sartorial smartness is emphasized as on no other day, when
appearance is honoured in deference to both the Father and the apparent
side of
Christ.
Of Irish race, I have often
looked less
than smart in the street and received the disapproving looks of those
for whom
an odd button or stain or tear or crease or some other sartorial
blemish is a
kind of social sin. My contempt for
appearances in loyalty to a spiritual bias is not appreciated by those
who are
insufficiently spiritual to be similarly contemptuous of it themselves,
which
includes most women and not a few effeminate men. They
do
not possess a superior criterion with
which to evaluate appearances, and are obliged, in consequence, to
regard one's
sartorial predilection as a social defect.... When one has but a
rudimentary
concept of essence, it stands to reason that appearances will be taken
for
reality and deemed of greater importance.
I, however, regard appearances in a different light, and so bear
my
shabbiness with pride. It is a mark of
spiritual earnestness, which is never as appropriate as on Sunday.
AN
ELECTRON
BIAS
Is
it
better
to leave school in
May I be so bold as to
suggest a similar
division between the sciences and the arts, with the former
representing the
proton side and the latter, by contrast, the electron side of an atomic
divide? Have not the arts hitherto
revolved around the sciences? You will
agree that, in the main, they have; though some of them have been freer
some of
the time, and there always exists, believe it or not, the possibility
of the
arts being free to 'do their own thing' independently of scientific
control or
reference, so that a free-electron and truly theocratic orientation
emerges ...
to signify the culmination of human creative endeavour in the highest
art, be
it visual, aural, or literary. That
subject is somewhat beyond the scope of this prose poem, but it
nonetheless has
some bearing on the division between the sciences and the arts, as
appertaining
to the school curriculum.
We can list on the proton
side:
mathematics, physics, chemistry, and geometry; on the electron side:
English,
history, geography, and art; though we are aware that other related
subjects
can be added, such as technical drawing on the one side and French on
the
other. Eight suffices for our purposes,
and anyone who leaves school with that number of Ordinary Levels is
more likely
to be atomic than post-atomic, or biased towards the electron. We may regard him as a democratic type,
balanced between the sciences and the arts.
A golden mean in some countries, particularly those where
atomic, and
hence democratic, criteria obtain. I
list merely
So it is possible that one
could leave
school with just four Ordinary Levels, and that at least three of those
- if
not all four - would be on either the proton or the electron side of an
atomic
divide, as opposed to two either side of it.
Suppose you get four O' Levels on the proton side - for example,
maths,
physics, chemistry, and technical drawing.
That would indicate - would it not? - a
strong
bias for the sciences, which would suggest an autocratic leaning, a
thing
perhaps more respectable in
My position, however, is
this: better to
get four Ordinary Levels on the arts side of the divide than either
eight right across the board or four on the
science side. For, objectively considered,
the theocratic
type is morally superior to both the democratic and the autocratic
types - one
could say a free-electron equivalent, as opposed to either an atomic or
a
proton equivalent. To have only four O'
Levels isn't necessarily to be less bright than someone with eight; it
may well
indicate a different (and effectively superior) ideological,
temperamental,
ethnic, or class position. And the four
arts O' Levels may be more strongly electron-orientated again, not the
average
grouping but something like: English literature, art, French, and music.
As for those autocratic
types who leave
school with physics (applied or pure), chemistry, mathematics, and
technical
drawing or, alternatively, with geometry, biology, engineering science,
and
algebra, all I can say is ... they aren't likely to become hard-line
Social
Transcendentalists in subsequent years!
FROM
ABSOLUTE
EVIL TO ABSOLUTE GOOD
Is
there
besides
the relative good and evil with which we are all familiar,
whether
through nature, animals, or men, an absolute good and evil, a good and
evil
outside the phenomenal world, whether beneath or beyond it, anterior or
posterior to it? Yes, most assuredly
there is! And we may classify these
absolutes as alpha and omega, or the beginning and culmination of the
Universe. Absolute evil would correspond
to its
beginnings and absolute good to its culmination, though not necessarily
only to
the ultimate culmination, which we may suppose has still to come about.
We may distinguish, then,
between the
subatomic proton-proton reactions of pure instinctuality,
which
signify
absolute evil, and the supra-atomic electron-electron
attractions
of pure spirituality, which signify absolute good; the one
corresponding to the
Diabolic Alpha, the other to the Divine Omega, a kind of in-between
compromise
coming in the person of Christ - and equivalent Man-God avatars - who
signifies
an abraxas-like relativity biased,
however, towards
the Divine Omega, a 'Three in One', as theological teachings have long
maintained. Although we shouldn't
overlook the fact that theology has also sought to absolutely elevate
Christ to
Le
Bon
Dieu, which follows from the
Resurrection and can only be applied to a Christ conceived in purely
transcendent terms. We should not
forget, either, that while theology has upheld an absolute antithesis
between
the good Christ and the evil Satan, it has also upheld a relative
antithesis
between the (less evil) Creator and (the more evil) Satan, regarding
the former
as God and the latter as the Devil, who corresponds to a 'Fallen Angel'
from
the 'heavenly' unity.
This is of course fiction,
theology having to
do, on this primitive level, with the abstraction of mythical fictions
from
cosmic facts, namely the existence of stars, both large and small, and
the
probability that, way back in the infancy of the Universe or of this
particular
galaxy, our sun did indeed emerge from a larger star which subsequently
became
the central, ruling star of the Galaxy, around which the sun - one of
thousands
of other smaller stars that exploded out of a larger whole - was
obliged to
revolve, less because of an attraction towards the ruling star than
because of
a mutual interest in the domination of planets, or cooling/cooled stars. Now if, as I believe, Satan corresponds, in
theological terms, to the sun, while the Creator corresponds, in a
like-manner,
to the central star of the Galaxy, then the distinction between them
is,
subjectively considered, of a power that directly impinges, through its
light
and heat, upon the world, and of a power that only indirectly impinges
upon it,
ruling the Galaxy from a position which is necessarily at a much
greater
distance from the earth. The sun, then,
is responsible, in its subatomic instinctuality,
for
a
more evil influence upon the world than ever the central star could
be, and
consequently theology posits a dialectical distinction between the
Devil and
the Creator, as between Satan and Jehovah - the one diabolic, the other
divine.
In its lowest or earliest
manifestation,
divinity has to do with the concept of a 'Creator of the Universe',
including
the planets, nature, etc. Considered
objectively, however, we need not doubt that the Galaxy's central star
- as
indeed the central star of any galaxy - is a larger, and hence more
powerful,
star than a peripheral one like the sun and, consequently, that the
Creator
corresponds to a more evil force than Satan, is, in effect, the archdiabolic inception of the Universe or, more
accurately,
of that part of it which corresponds to the Galaxy, each galaxy
possessing but
one central star (or star cluster), there being millions of galaxies in
the Universe,
therefore millions of first causes, evil being inherently manifold and
diverse,
the concept of a Big Bang origin to the Universe owing not a little, it
seems
to me, to monotheistic tradition, though essentially somewhat limited,
particularly in view of the vast number of galaxies currently in
existence, not
all of which could surely have issued from a single source!
However that may be, if
evolution or the
Universe begins in the archdiabolism of a
Creator-equivalent, then it must culminate in the archdivinity,
so
to
speak, of the Holy Ghost, must pass from a diversified inception to
a
unified climax, a final unity of pure spirit in the electron-electron
attractions of the Omega Point - the ultimate good.
Yet this entails a terribly long process, even,
I imagine, on the supra-atomic plane of the heavenly Beyond itself,
where one
may suppose only a gradual convergence of spiritual globes towards an
omega
goal can be anticipated. But just as
there was a relative antithesis between Satan (the sun) and the Creator
(the
central star of the Galaxy) on the alpha level of religious absolutism,
so
there must be a like-antithetical relativity between a Spiritual Globe
(angel)
and what, in relation to the Holy Ghost, could be called the Ultimate
Creation
(definitive God) on the omega level of religious absolutism, the
Spiritual
Globe - one of many such transcendences - a greater good, subjectively
considered, than the non-existent Ultimate Creation, because closer to
the
world and tending towards the goal of evolutionary striving in ultimate
divinity, but less good, objectively considered, than the eventual
culmination
of evolution in that spiritual oneness - the absolute good in every
sense!
A
JOURNEY
BEYOND MYTHS
The
abstraction
of
theological fictions from cosmic facts, signifying a distinction
between subconscious subjectivity and cosmic objectivity, is
paralleled, with
the eventual emergence of an antithetical stage of evolution, by the
abstraction of cosmic illusions from theological truths, signifying a
distinction
between cosmic subjectivity and superconscious
objectivity. Whereas the outer world
dictates to the inner one in the former case, it is the inner world
that
dictates to the outer one in the latter case, so that, instead of being
the
victim of cosmic facts, the inner world, in the antithetical guise of
the superconscious, reinterprets the
cosmos and its workings
thereof according to transcendental requirement, replacing the
Newtonian fact
with the Einsteinian illusion, the literal
with the
metaphorical, force and mass with curved space.
Whereas the subconscious
looked up, as it
were, to the factual cosmos, the superconscious
looks
down on it from its truth-oriented vantage point. The
fictional
subconscious was partial to
Devils and Demons, Hells and Purgatories, Fathers and Creators, not to
mention,
from an egocentric angle, Christs and
Sons, Holy
Ghosts and Heavens. By contrast, the
truthful superconscious is only partial to
the truth
of its own awareness in peaceful being.
The factual cosmos was a comparatively simple affair of stars
and
planets, moons and comets. The illusory
cosmos, however, is an exceedingly complex affair of curved space and
multiple
universes, black holes and worm holes, infinitely complex atoms and
infinitely
small quarks, unaccountable movements and scarcely-credible
transformations. Now it is the Cosmos
that is magical and the inner world, by contrast, which holds no
surprises -
quite the contrary to what was formerly the case! Divested
of
its mysticism, the subconscious
has become secularized and only fit for the psychoanalytical
investigations of
guilt-leaden neuroses. It is the
external cosmos that has acquired a mysticism,
in
accordance
with the superficial requirements of a decadent age.
Ah, but such mysticism won't
last! What began in a factual cosmos will
end in a
truthful psyche. People will cease to
take an interest in the mystical universe and, instead, turn to the
truth of
their superconscious worlds - absolutist
in their
aspirations towards divine truth.
AN
EVOLUTIONARY
BIAS
The
struggle
between
natural determinism and free will, that which stems from the
Father and that which aspires towards the Holy Spirit, continues
unabated in
this world of atomic relativities, and no less so in the guise of the
controversial Creationist/Evolutionist dichotomy in certain American
schools
... than in the older and better-known struggles between, for example,
man and
woman, or Church and State. On the one
side, those who uphold the theory of Creation, as recorded in the Old
Testament, and on the other side those who reject it in favour of
evolution, as
derived from
To my mind, Creationism is
simply
Pagan/Judaic theology, that's to say, an attempt to explain, in fairly
basic
mythical terms, the extremely complex phenomenon of existent life on a
ready-made planet. Theology is the
fiction abstracted from the fact, or what is assumed to be the fact,
and it
endeavours, for the benefit of simple minds, to put a kind of
sugar-coating
over the bitter pill of factual reality.
It is easier to believe that the Father created the world and
all the
life forms in it, including man, than to attempt an understanding of
the
extremely complex, longwinded process of a gradual evolution, which
proceeded
at a considerable remove, both in space and time, from the central
(first-cause) star of the Galaxy - the type of star from which, we may
suppose,
such stars as the sun originally exploded out ('fell'), though only as
a
flaming star, not as a cooling or already cooled one (planet), which
would
presuppose a great elapse of time ... prior to which only flaming stars
existed, to diverge and contract, one against another, in an everywhichway context of anarchic hell, no move
towards the
rudimentary formation of galaxies apparent on account of the absolutist
constitution of a starry universe, the lack, at that early time, of
cooling/cooled stars to establish galactic patterns on the basis of a
magnetic
reciprocity.
Of course, such patterns
eventually
emerged, and, following several millennia, life began to appear on the
earth
and, we may confidently assume, on earth-equivalent planets in other
solar
systems throughout both the Galaxy and the universe of galaxies of
which this
galaxy is but a tiny fragment. Science
can tell us quite a lot, these days, about emergent life, both in the
ocean,
where it seems to have begun, and, later, on land ... in the forms of
plants,
reptiles, and mammals. If God (the
Father) created man, he must also have created, at a much earlier date,
the
fierce dinosaurs and brontosauruses and other large reptiles that
inhabited, on
extremely barbarous terms, a jungle-infested and lava-ridden planet. Not to mention the fierce mammals -
sabre-toothed tigers and huge-tusked mammoths - that superseded them
during and
after the Ice Age. Horrible creatures
all! And early man himself,
not
a
very pretty or polite picture! Beastly,
ghastly, extremely narrow-minded,
like everything that appertains to an early phase of evolution. More abominable than words can describe!
But man, that paragon of the
animals, had
more intelligence and resilience than other creatures, and this not
only
enabled him to thrive at their expense, but to evolve away from his
ape-like
condition, to become, over the course of many millennia, civilized,
which is to
say, partial to an aesthetico-religious
dimension in
fixed communities and capable, in consequence, of inventing myths to
explain
away the complexity of the world and the extraordinary phenomenon of
his
presence in it. Hitherto, as an animal,
he would have been content merely to live in it, like Adam in the
Garden of
Eden. Now, with an emerging superconscious and the glimmer of an analytical
spirit, he
sought to explain it and himself also.
He had come down from the trees, left 'the Garden' for the
wilderness,
or the jungle for the clearing, having secured the possibility of
building in
and on it a world of his own that would - as we now know only too well
-
eventually rival and supplant nature. He
had become civilized, aspirant, in some faint or indirect way, towards
an Other
World, a world the antithesis to the natural one, a supernatural world
which
could not be glimpsed without an artificial, or civilized, world coming
in-between. And he progressed and,
willy-nilly, is still progressing towards this higher world, one owing
nothing
to nature and less than nothing to its subnatural
forerunner, with the cosmic inception of the Universe.
Ah, Creationism indeed! We cannot expect a liberal republican country
like
EVOLUTION
What
evolutionary
progress,
you may well wonder, has still to be made?
I'll tell you what: lots! Yes, we
are still in the world of men, a
humanist stage of evolution, and we shall doubtless remain in it for a
while
longer. But not, fortunately, for ever,
since a time is fast approaching when man, in Nietzschean
parlance, may well be 'overcome', as serious efforts are made, by
certain
qualified men, to create the first of two truly post-human life forms,
the
Supermen of the early stage of millennial futurity, a life form created
out of
man, or rather his cyborg-like successor,
as human
brains artificially supported and sustained in collectivized contexts,
their raison
d'être being to indirectly cultivate pure spirit through the
contemplation -
necessarily passive - of the visionary contents of a new brain
opened-up by
synthetic hallucinogens like LSD. In a word, to 'trip'.
However, these Supermen may
well be further
transformed at a later time, that's to say, the qualified technicians
of the
post-human millennium will surgically remove the old brain from each
individual
Superman and re-collectivize their new brains on a more extensive and
intensive
basis, thereby creating the second of the millennial life forms, the Superbeings, as I usually call them, whose raison
d'être will be the direct cultivation of pure spirit through hypermeditation (a sort of intensified and more
rarefied
transcendental meditation), until such time as transcendence occurs and
pure
spirit - detached from new-brain atomicity - soars heavenwards, to
converge
towards other such transcendences and expand into larger wholes in a
process
that should continue until such time as all transcendences,
from
whichever
part of the expanding spiritual universe, have converged
together and expanded into one definitive whole - the Omega Point ...
of
Ultimate Divinity.
Such is the prospect in
store for an
evolving universe, a universe that will attain to perfection - and
remain in it
for all eternity - in the indivisible unity of the ultimate Spiritual
Globe, a
unity that will not share space with anything solar or planetary, all
naturalism and materialism having passed away, never to return!
How did the Universe begin? With stellar energy, the
emergence in the void of gaseous stars.
How did it progress? With the emergence from these stars, or certain of them,
of suns
(small stars). How did it
continue? With the
emergence from suns, or certain of them, of planets? All instinctual globes in
one degree or another.
Then what?
The emergence on certain of the planets of
... nature,
both inorganic and organic. And then? The emergence from nature of animals - fish, reptiles,
mammals,
etc. To be followed by? The emergence from certain of these animals -
apes, we think, though we aren't sure exactly what type - of men, which
is to
say, cavemen and jungle men and desert nomads and mountain men.
Who preceded? More civilized kinds of men, whom we now
identify as Christians or Mohammedans or Buddhists or Shintoists,
who were no longer pagan, or instinct-orientated, but mainly balanced,
in the
body, between the id and the spirit - in short, dualists.
Though we should make an
exception for the Jews, those ... 'holy pagans', who have good reason,
in
consequence, to be awaiting an ultimate messiah, no mere dualist, but a
radical
transcendentalist.
Who will?
Further the development of a new and higher type of man in a new
civilization, the antithesis to id-biased fundamentalism in
spirit-biased
transcendentalism, which should eventually spread throughout the world,
bringing it to spiritual unity as a kind of crude approximation to or
intimation of the divine goal of all evolutionary striving in the
heavenly
Beyond.
And
after this third type
of man? The first of the
post-human life forms, the Supermen, who will be created out of
transcendental
man and constitute an antithesis to the apes.
And then the second of the millennial life forms created out of
the
first? Yes, the Superbeings,
above
and
beyond all egocentricity, and hence the antithesis of trees, or
that
sub-egocentric life-form preceding the animals.
Which leaves?
The emergence from the Superbeings
of Spiritual Globes, which will constitute an
antithesis to the planets, those material globes, and gradually
converge
towards and expand into larger wholes.
Or? Galactic Globes, as we may
well call that which will eventually establish an antithesis with suns,
or
small stars.
Becoming thereafter? The one, definitive, Universal Globe of the
Omega Point, the antithesis, in every respect, to the inception of the
Universe
in the Alpha Points, as it were, of the big stars, which emerged in the
void. But not from it? No, nothing can emerge from a void, though
plenty can return to nothingness in it.
Like stars, for instance? Yes,
though not like pure spirit. Ah, how
truly you speak!
FROM
ROCK
TO JAZZ
Rock
is
a
left-wing democratic art form reflecting, as a rule, a kind of
petty-bourgeois/proletarian decadence, by which is meant rhythmic bias
- music
being predominantly rhythmic in its autocratic youth, harmonic/melodic
(a
combination of rhythm and pitch, whether rhythm- or pitch-orientated)
in its
democratic adulthood, and 'pitchful' in its
theocratic old age. Rock suggests, in
its rhythmic and chordal essence, a
neo-pagan type of
integrity, a 'fall' from democratic bourgeois melodic music which,
paradoxically, is yet also a 'rise' ... with regard to the use of
electric and
synthetic instruments. It's as though
the age were reflecting an 'eternal recurrence' of pagan rhythmic
vitality on a
higher, though parallel, turn of the evolutionary spiral.
Not entirely, however! For while Rock is symptomatic of a left-wing
decadence, there is also such a thing as Jazz-Rock, which suggests a
theocratic
aspiration and which, in consequence of its greater complexity, may be
accorded
a right-wing communist, or Marxist-Leninist, equivalent, distinct, in
its
improvisational essence, from the rhythmic bias of rock musicians, who
seem to
reflect a Marxist integrity ... as Rock becomes increasingly rhythmic
and thus,
in effect, progressively more degenerate, symptomatic of Punk. If Rock began as a democratic-socialist
equivalent, it has arguably ended-up as an extreme left-wing communist
equivalent, rhythm being paramount.
Certainly, Jazz-Rock
suggests an opposition
to this degenerate trend and is somehow transitional between rock
purism and
Rock-Jazz, that left-wing theocratic art form which, while being
predominantly
jazzy, and hence improvisational, is not without a rock aspect, or
commitment. Some have termed it
'Fusion', in contrast to 'Progressive', or Jazz-Rock, which suggests a
predominantly white, as opposed to black, ethnic bias.
Rock-Jazz (Fusion) is a black approach to a
white democratically-biased music, Jazz-Rock (Progressive) a white
approach to
a black theocratically-biased music. They are both hybrid forms in between the
democratic, or anti-democratic, and theocratic extremes of ... Rock and
Jazz,
in the latter case specifically Modern Jazz, that electronically-biased
improvisational music in which pitch is if not all-important then, at
any rate,
considerably more important than in Jazz-Rock or, for that matter, in
Rock-Jazz.
Modern Jazz is a right-wing
theocratic art
form, suitable to a supernatural ideological bias, particularly one of
approximately Social Transcendentalist integrity. In
this
music, the rhythm, whether from drums
or bass, generally functions on a quasi-pitchful
level, suggesting a tendency in the direction of pitch absolutism. This, however, will only come about in the
future, by which time Modern Jazz will have been superseded, in all
probability, by Superjazz, as percussive
and rhythmic
ingredients are pitchfully transcended in
an
improvisational purism, and music attains to its culmination in the
wise old
age of a theocratic supernaturalism.
A radically theocratic
society would have
no use for Rock, none even for Jazz-Rock and its Jazz-based counterpart
-
Rock-Jazz. Neither would it tolerate
Soul, the black equivalent of Rock, nor its degenerate successor Funk,
which
stands to Soul as Punk to Rock. In both
cases, the internal has given way to the external, essence to
appearance,
content to form, melody to rhythm, and they are equally decadent and,
by
implication, antinatural.
Likewise Pop,
the
unsophisticated
music of the broad masses rather than of a minority
elite,
whether petty-bourgeois or proletarian, democratic or theocratic, will
cease to
exist in the coming supernatural society.
Only the highest theocratic music will prevail, and
predominantly within
a religious context. It won't be Jazz in
any traditional sense, but stem from Modern Jazz to the extent that it
is
synthetic and largely improvisational, or pitchful.
The bourgeois classical and
petty-bourgeois
avant-garde traditions, both pertinent to the right-wing of a
democratic
society, will have been consigned to the rubbish heap of musical
history, from
which, in conjunction with left-wing antinatural
music, they will never arise again! Only
free-electron criteria will be relevant to the ultimate closed society.
THE
OMEGA
INSTRUMENT
A
conductor
stands
to an orchestra as a proton equivalent to a collection of
bound-electron
equivalents, the combination thereby formed
constituting an atomicity appropriate to an atomic age or society. With the emergence of a post-atomic age or
society, however, such an atomicity will cease to be viable ... as
orchestras
and conductors are regarded as obsolescent and consigned, in
consequence, to
the rubbish heap of bourgeois, democratic history.
You can't have a baton-wielding proton
equivalent dominating a collection of instrument-bearing electron
equivalents,
reminiscent of a tyrant lording it over his subjects, in a radically
theocratic
society. All such relativities would be
morally taboo, quite apart from the inapplicability of acoustic
instruments to
a supernatural age, or the no-less inapplicable reference to
music-scores,
which, through intellectual appearances, maintain a relativity with the
music
being played - the music not solely essential, or stemming from
internal
memory/improvisational sources, but derived, as notes, from a source
extraneous
to the self.
When music is
essential,
and thus stemming from the musician's spiritual self, there is need
neither for
scores nor conductors, since free-electron absolutism is then, as in
the best
Modern Jazz, the norm, and the music will reflect this internal freedom
largely
through improvisation. But better, of
course, is the use of synthetic or electric instruments to reflect such
a
freedom than ... acoustic ones, which, being naturalistic, are more
applicable
to an atomic, and hence bourgeois, context.
Modern music is best served by electric instruments, though we
can
distinguish, I believe, between the antinatural
and
the supernatural even here, so that while some types of guitar and
keyboard
will be better-suited to antinatural Rock,
other
types, being differently constituted, will prove more appropriate to a
supernatural context like Modern Jazz, which depends much more on pitch
than on
rhythm.
Where electric guitars are
concerned, one
can distinguish between the flat, solid type of instrument, suited to
Rock, and
the guitar synthesizer which, with its piano-like keyboard, is more
appropriate
to the supernaturalism of Rock-Jazz. On
the other hand, there may well be a Marxist-Leninist equivalent about
synthesized guitars, or synth-axes, which
would make
them specifically appropriate to Jazz-Rock as opposed to either
Rock-Jazz or
Modern Jazz, the latter of which, by contrast, would profit, as it so
often
does, from the use of semi-electric guitars (not to be confused with
the
raised, hollow type of guitar that is more relevant to Pop and was, in
some
sense, a forerunner of the solid electric guitar) and even from the use
of
modern folksy kinds of acoustic guitars ... appropriate, in their
partly plastic
construction, to the supernatural, in contrast to the natural,
wooden/catgut
acoustics used in bourgeois classical music - the classical guitar
properly
so-considered. Certainly the
supernatural seems, as a rule, to have more in common with the natural
than
with, say, the antinatural, even if the
anti-supernatural, Marxist-Leninist equivalent appears a little closer
to it
when all the ingredients have been taken into account.
And what holds true for
guitars must also
apply to other types of instrument, keyboards included, where one can
note a
natural/antinatural distinction between
acoustic
(specifically upright) pianos and flat, horizontal electric ones, the
latter
applicable to Rock. No doubt, the
incorporation of a synthesizer or synthesizing capacity into the
electric piano
brings it closer to the supernatural ... with regard to
synthesizers-proper,
and may be said to constitute an anti-supernatural (Marxist-Leninist)
equivalent ... to the extent that a supernatural element, viz. the
synthesizer,
has been brought to bear on a basically antinatural
instrument, as applicable to Jazz-Rock.
However, for a truly
supernatural
integrity, applicable to Modern Jazz, nothing short of a genuine,
unadulterated
synthesizer will do, its appearance reminiscent, to a degree, of a
harpsichord,
its sound transcendental. If Modern Jazz
is to evolve into Superjazz, a pitchful
absolutism, it can only do so, one suspects, via a synthesizer, that
most
supernatural, and hence theocratic, of all musical instruments. Guitars, keyboards, strings, wind, brass, and
percussion instruments are all, in varying degrees, either democratic
or
autocratic, whether on a positive or a negative basis.
Not even the use of transparent plastics - perspex,
vinyl,
etc. - turns electric guitars and violins
into truly supernatural instruments, though it marks a distinct
radicalization
of the antinatural.
Only the synthesizer can
transcend all
historical instruments and their antinatural
successors by combining them within its own uniquely synthetic
integrity, and
thus rendering them superfluous. For if
you can play a guitar-like or a flute-like sound on the synthesizer in
addition
to its own specific sound, of what use are guitars or flutes? Why have the Many when you can settle for the
One which, in its multifaceted capacity, subsumes the Many into itself
while
simultaneously transcending them all through its own uniquely
synthesized
sound? And which, as well as being
manually playable, can be programmed to play any sound or combination
of sounds
in whichever way one specifies, thereby doing away with the relativity
between
different performers and elevating the musician to an absolutist status
vis-à-vis his compositions.
Ah, so quintessentially
theocratic! And no need for a conductor to
ensure that
the music is performed correctly or, more usually, according to his
personal
preferences. No individualism where an
autonomously-generated performance is concerned. Nor
even
any performer. Does not the machine
rid man of the burden of
manual work? Or, in the case of
musicians, of repeating the same work over and over again, no matter
how
pleasurable it may once have been? Yes,
of course!
ELECTRON
FREEDOMS
I
used
to
think the State worse than the Church, democracy worse than
Catholicism, but
these days I'm not so sure. Or, rather,
I perceive in the State a 'fall' (forwards) from the wavicle
side of the proton to the particle side of the neutron, a progression,
as it
were, from proton wavicles to neutron
and/or electron
particles. I don't confound the State
with the Kingdom, that proton-particle predecessor of the Church which,
having
died-out in most countries, still exists in
Thus began the ascendancy of
man over
woman. The State may, on account of its
particle constitution, be feminine, but it is the feminine side of a
male
integrity, founded on reason and not, like the Catholic Church, on
intuition,
that masculine attribute of a female integrity, which embraces the
visionary. Reason, on the other hand,
embraces rights, and the rights, not least of all, of the greater
number to
live in freedom, and hence happiness. Freedom, above all, from persecution, whether this stems
from the
Kingdom or the Church. Freedom if not to be spiritual ... then at least to be
rational. A
new-brain freedom as
opposed to an old-brain and/or subconscious enslavement. Better the free than the bound, but better
again than the freedom from
the Kingdom/Church is the freedom for
the
Centre, the freedom of
the superconscious.
Yes, for the superconscious
pertains to the wavicle side of the
electron, its
truly liberated side, and just as the Church stemmed, in its wavicle bias, from the particle Kingdom, so the
Centre must
stem from the particle State, bringing electron evolution to a positive
climax
of wavicle awareness, ushering in an age
of
super-enlightenment, when nothing of the proton, whether in Kingdom or
Church,
will remain, an electron absolutism having superseded all atomic
relativity,
the Virgin Mary dethroned from her statuesque pedestal, woman no longer
enslaved to man but ... effectively free to be Superman, to cultivate
spirit.
Then the superconscious
will reign supreme, first indirectly ... through contemplation of the
artificially-induced visionary contents of the new brain, then directly
...
through the spiritual self-realization of hypermeditation. A relativistic absolutism of State-Centre
particle/wavicle electrons will precede the
Centrist
absolutism of electron wavicles. Social Transcendentalism will lead to
Super-transcendentalism, the new-brain superconscious
to the transcendent superconscious,
superhuman man to
superbeingful man, visionary
truth to pure truth.
NATIONAL
PARADOXES
Relative
life
is
ever paradoxical, and certainly the fact of Catholic
Nevertheless, one perceives
within this
Republican/Protestant dichotomy a crude absolutism, whereas the older
nations
like Britain and France are more relative, and in the most paradoxical
kind of
way - Britain a Protestant Kingdom and France a Catholic Republic, the
one
evincing a neutron-wavicle/proton-particle
dichotomy,
the other ... a proton-wavicle/neutron-particle
dichotomy,
each
effectively the opposite of the other, both of them mutually
repellent, the British relativity more extremist than the French, there
being
no atomic contiguity between proton particles and neutron wavicles,
the Kingdom and Protestantism, which flank the Catholic/Republican
dichotomy
or, if you prefer, compromise of the French.
Thus while the Catholic
Church/Republican
State dualism is paradoxical enough, the Kingdom State/Protestant
Church
dualism is even more so, and to the point of absurdity.
Are not the British the most paradoxical
people on earth? And
not simply with regard to politics and religion, the
Yet, as if that weren't
paradoxical enough,
there is a further complication where Northern Ireland is concerned,
which at
the time of writing [1984-85] still forms part of the United Kingdom
(of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland) but is distinct from Great Britain,
appertaining
not to the British island but to the Irish one, which, paradoxically,
is part
of the British Isles. For like the
British, the Irish, particularly in the North of Ireland, are also
divided ...
between Northern Irish nationality and British and/or Irish identity,
not to mention
between Protestant Loyalism and Catholic
Republicanism, a division within a division which has been the source,
traditionally, of bitter conflict.
While the
THE
MACHINE
It
has
been
said that man is fashioned in the image of God (the Father), but while
we may
have our doubts about that, these days, we know for sure that God (the
Son) was
fashioned in the image of man. It has
also been said that man is conditioned by his machines, and while there
may be
some truth in this, we need not doubt that machines are made in man's
image. By which I mean that man creates
from his own order the order of the machine, that man precedes the
machine, not
the machine man, and that the machine stands to him as he used to stand
to the
Creator - a reflection of a preordained order, in the one case natural,
in the
other case artificial.
Man, then, becomes God twice
over, first in
being, then in doing; first in Christ, then as creator of the machine,
though
we may suppose this latter assumption of divinity a decadence compared
with the
former. Yet man needs the machine and
the machine, seemingly, needs man, or, at least, this used to be the
case ...
before it became autonomous and thereby capable of leading a completely
independent existence, as in computers and digital watches, much the
way man
outgrew his dependence on God (the Father) and became, via Christ,
independent,
and hence fully human. Now the machine
has become fully mechanical, liberated from man and free to do its own
business, regardless of what human beings may think of the fact. At one time God took orders from man; now man
takes orders from the machine, which he trusts to do his business for
him, much
as God was expected to answer prayers.
These days only the most
backward of people
still pray. For the machine is capable
of fulfilling most human needs, having been fashioned in man's image. We are fed by it, entertained by it, educated
by it, informed by it, transported by it, warmed by it, pleasured by
it,
clothed by it, dried by it, cooled by it, repaired by it, tanned by it,
reproduced by it, and even killed by it.
What it ultimately cannot do, however, is to save us, for this
is
something that man can only do by and through his mind, striving, in
the
process, to overcome his body ... with the assistance, needless to say,
of the
machine. For just as he became liberated
from God (the Father), so he must become liberated from himself, if he
is to
attain to the Superman and subsequently be engineered beyond that
post-human stage
to the Superbeing.
So the machine will come to support his successors, no less than
God
(the Father) once supported men. And
their ultimate goal will be liberation from the machine, which is
nothing less
than Heaven and, inevitably, full attainment to God (the Holy Spirit).
SUPERNATURAL
VOYEURISM
Better
than
sexual fantasies are sexual videos, for they
correspond to the supernatural, whereas the daydreams of fantasy life
are subnatural, and thus morally inferior. It is better that we watch other people
dreaming for us than to dream ourselves.
And it is better that we watch other people having sex on video
than to
watch ourselves, since the supernatural is ever preferable to the
natural, no
matter how pleasurable we may find the latter to be.
Morally preferable, I mean. For
anyone who dismisses moral considerations
is either a scoundrel or an idiot, and quite possibly degenerate to
boot!
Supernatural voyeurism
conforms to a
theocratic status, whereas natural voyeurism clings to a democratic
status and subnatural voyeurism to one
that is autocratic. Whereas supernatural
voyeurism has to do with
the superconscious, no matter how
indirectly, subnatural voyeurism is a
thing of the subconscious, of the
subconscious conjuring up and regulating and/or manipulating images
from the
old brain. Natural voyeurism, coming
in-between, is of course an egocentric indulgence, as consciousness
contemplates the sexual parts and/or activities of another, who is both
free
and externally manipulated. Voyeurism,
of whatever kind, is the wavicle side of a
sexual
atomicity, whether one is dealing with autocratic instinctuality
or theocratic spirituality or, indeed, with a democratic compromise, in
intellectuality, coming in-between the two, as when the natural voyeur
alternates
between contemplation and manipulation during the indulgence of oral
sex, that
quintessentially relative form of voyeurism, bespeaking a particle/wavicle compromise.
Of course, naturalistic
voyeurism can also
be of a supernatural persuasion, as in straight contemplation, whether
involving two or more persons, and this is the lesser supernaturalism,
one
might say, of a modified naturalism (not to be confounded with video or
magazine sex, which transcends the natural through the artificial
medium of
film and/or photography). Ideally,
supernatural voyeurism should be as divorced from physical
participation, on
the voyeur's part, as subnatural
voyeurism, whereas
natural voyeurism will generally entail some physical commitment,
though no
more than oral, whether with a bias for cunnilingus or fellatio or,
indeed, a
balance between the two, depending, in some degree, on the class and/or
moral
integrity of the participants.
Whatever the individual
case, such wavicle sex is morally
preferable to its particle, coital
complement, and no-one can consider himself sexually civilized who does
not
have a voyeuristic tendency, even if this inclination is diluted, as it
were,
by physical commitments of one kind or another.
Eventually, physical sex will die-out altogether, leaving a more
civilized, supernatural humanity with the wavicle
absolutism of a free-electron sexuality, to be indulged in private and
alone. Supernatural voyeurism will
become the rule, not remain the exception.
Everyone will possess a video and/or alternative pornographic
outlet,
and few people will desire to fantasize.
SPIRITUAL
CULTIVATION
You
don't
cultivate
spirit by keeping the body as fit and strong as possible.
Symptomatic of the decadence of contemporary
Anglo-American civilization is the notion that physical fitness is a
means to
spiritual enlightenment, that bodily exercises should be indulged in
not only
for their own sake ... but with a view to improving one's spiritual
life! Yet this is a rather
contradictory notion,
since the cultivation of spirit can only be pursued at the expense of
the body,
not by placing special emphasis on physical prowess!
You don't become learned through jogging, and
neither will you soar to the contemplative heights during a physical
work-out
or weight-lifting exercise. People who
imagine the contrary are simply deceiving
themselves
as to the true nature of spiritual enlightenment!
Admittedly, the physical and
the spiritual
are to some extent intertwined in human affairs. But
cultivating
the spiritual through the
physical, the mind through the body, is a rather indirect, medieval,
tangential
way of attaining to enlightenment, and one would have to scourge
oneself extremely
hard to experience anything approaching a beatific vision or moment of
contemplative lucidity! Why go the long
way around when a simpler, more direct approach to spiritual fulfilment
would
prove of far greater efficacy? Assuming
one is really interested in developing spirit and is not simply an
outright
athlete, for whom the development of muscle is the primary concern! Could it be that, of all categories of
mankind, young women are particularly prone to an indirect, masochistic
approach to the spiritual life, being unable to surmount their bodies? Certainly there is much contemporary evidence
to support that hypothesis, though one cannot, in all fairness, exempt
all
young men from a similar query, nor doubt that extensive publicity of
athletic
events must have a deleterious effect on some people's conduct.
But whether the
health-freaks are genuinely
interested in cultivating spirit indirectly or simply use this notion
as a
cover for purely athletic activities, the fact remains that not
everyone is
destined or intended to be genuinely spiritual.
By which I mean that while spiritual cultivation is relevant to
some, it
is quite irrelevant to others, and maybe most of those who regularly
jog and/or
lift weights ... are in this non-contemplative category.
Is this bad?
No, not necessarily! No matter how
civilized a particular segment
of society becomes, there will always be others who will be less
spiritual, and
hence more physical, and their proper place would be ... outside the
meditation
centre, whether in the armed forces, the police, the bureaucracy,
business,
manual work, or whatever. We must
remember that while some people are entitled, by their intelligence,
temperament, and physical constitution, to be the brains of society,
there are
others who, for quite different reasons, must remain its body, and who
will
continue to do so even while cultivating spirit, whether directly or,
more
usually, indirectly.
Furthermore, we might also
distinguish
between the spiritual 'sheep', who in a higher civilization ought to be
the
majority, and the physical 'sheep dogs', or those who, whether as
soldiers or
police, protect and safeguard the interests of that majority, keeping
them in
the 'pen' of any given social system, and defending them from external
encroachments by alien systems. Nothing,
therefore, could be more foolish than to treat the 'sheep dogs' as
'sheep' or,
conversely, the 'sheep' as 'sheep dogs', when they must forever remain
distinct
on account of their respective natures and duties.
The important thing is to know how to distinguish
the one from the other, and ensure that they are not obliged to behave
in a
manner contrary to their respective natures.
Now this also implies the weeding-out of potential 'sheep dogs'
from the
'flock' and their subsequent cultural segregation.
In a higher social system,
such as I equate
with Social Transcendentalism, those who were manifestly unsuited to
the direct
cultivation of spirit would be debarred entry into the meditation
centres and
obliged to fulfil themselves according to their more physical
dispositions,
either as police or soldiers, or something analogous.
In such fashion the idiocy of trying to turn
athletes into contemplatives would be avoided, and greater spiritual
progress
could accordingly be made by those entitled to make it, who would, of
course,
cultivate spirit directly ... under Centrist guidance.
