The Beginnings of Man -Part 6

In this final 6th part of the series ‘The Beginnings of Man’ I question the truth behind the writings of Enoch and propose a creation story that suggests Man is not wholly of Earthern origins!

In part 5  of ‘The Beginnings of Man’, I suggested based on biblical texts and creation stories around the world that Gods rather than one all-powerful God were responsible for the birth, or as some would argue, the fall of Man. Good and Evil are theologically defined powers, whereas the sciences will talk in terms of opposites; negative and positive forms of energy. However, science, religion and most philosophic and metaphysical tomes do agree on one ‘truth’, that Man has a hierarchical form of consciousness, albeit they have different ways of defining it. Simply stated in means Man thinks of himself as created uniquely by the unknowable and all his experience is purposed to achieve oneness with the unknowable. Consciousness begins with the (unknown) demand to achieve oneness, which develops multi levels of consciousness, that purpose the self to unify and achieve the goal of oneness.

In Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain cosmology, for example, they see the process of creation as an extremely long cosmic period (an aeon) called a Kalpa —often described as a “day of Brahma” lasting 4.32 billion years, which ends in an equally long period of dissolution called Pralaya. In Christianity and Islam one omnipotent power begins and ends all and in the process define how we progress to oneness by the guidance of good over evil understanding. Whatever creation process you subscribe too, or not, we objectively understand our belief or non-belief in a hierarchical expression, which ultimately defines a oneness achieved by understanding the purpose ‘God’ intended of us.

And we do this at all levels of conscious awareness. At a prosaic level we function to process, be it an action, a memory, or an idea in the same way. It’s better if we resolve the need, or worse if we don’t. Either one or other  ‘ending’ is predicated to improve understanding.

In all post flood theological writings we are told that beginning of everything is unknowable, i.e. God which equates to zero and all endings are attributable to God, which again equates to zero.

Now let us look at the hierarchical process of understanding in the case of Adam.

The story told in Genisis, is believed to be written about 1440–1400 BC during Moses’ lifetime, thought some scholars argue it reached its final form much later, around the 6th–5th century BC. As the story is written it suggests that Adam and Eve are single persons. Adam, as I’ve already indicated would have been a population not a single entity, and Eve likewise.

The key points of the story in Genisis are, in Chapter 1 ‘God’ creates Man in His own image on the 5th day when He also creates all other forms of Earth life and gives Man the power over all life on Earth. In Chapter 2, God creates Man from the dust of the ground and the Garden of Eden and enables Man(who is named Adam) to eat freely all except from the Tree of Knowledge. Seeing Adam needs a mate (all the animals etc. have mates) He creates Eve. In Chapter 3 the Serpent tells Eve that eating from the Knowledge Tree will give her the powers of a God. Eve ‘eats’ and causes Adam to ‘eat’. They become aware of their nakedness (of their Earth origin). God curses them above all forms of vertebrae life for as long as they live and casts them out of the Garden of Eden. Adam describes Eve as the mother of all living.

God refers to Himself as ‘us’, So that suggests He was ‘many’. He creates Man on the 5th day along with all other forms of life but doesn’t initially give him (or other forms of life) physical presence. Only when the Garden of Eden physically created does he physically create Man as Adam who has dominion over all forms of life. Eve is created out of Adam who gains awareness of the forbidden knowledge which gives her a god-like status, shares it with Adam who likewise becomes aware of his god-like nature. God (the many) curses them and throws them out of the Garden.

According to this story told in Genisis, Man must repent his wickedness and hope that God will eventually forgive and restore his original well-being; a beginning, which it must be said was God-like in no need of a mate. A spiritual journey that goes on beyond physical death. All well and good, but Enoch appears to suggest God was many!

The Book of Enoch predates Genisis and has a chequered history. Authorship is traditionally attributed to Enoch, the great‑grandfather of Noah, although scholars agree the text is a composite work, compiled over time We now know it was preserved in part in the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran written more than 2,200 years ago in Aramaic, other scholarly sources suggest it was written in the 2nd century BC. Given it refers to pre and post flood global events the source is much earlier, and we suspect that some parts are missing and some parts have been authored by Jewish scribes. The work is widely regarded as a mythology and an Antichrist dialogue by Christianity, but given it predates Genisis (chapter 6  ‘sons of God’ and ‘giants), we should seriously examine what it has to say about the birth of Man.

Enoch refers to God as the ‘Most Holy’ and he does suggest they are many. He refers to the Watchers as having watched the Earth for a long time. He also makes it clear the rebellious angels are Watchers and sons of god and the Holy Ones are also Watchers and are those angels who did not incarnate to the Earth, Less the religious symbolism It reads like this….

An intelligent race of Beings who have been observing the life forming on Earth for some time decide, in part, to migrate and incarnate some of their selves to the Earth’s atmosphere. They are highly evolved and their bodily forms are not composed of common matter. The bodies they do have are largely composed of Dark Matter but also other forms of Matter which we know must exist but as yet don’t know about. As their forms adapt to the energetic nature of the Earth’s atmosphere they are gravitationally drawn toward the Earth’s surface attracted to an evolving form of ape we know as the Hominid species, which according to our fossil records were present on Earth 7 million years ago. And I suggest this correlates with the Genisis text where God created Man on the 5th day of creation, but -and it’s an important but -had yet to create him physically in the Garden of Eden.

This causes an evolutionary change in the Hominid family which gives rise to Homo heidelbergensis (700’000 years ago) and ongoing developing into Homo Sapiens, 300’000 years ago. The physical migration of these ‘intelligent beings’ that Enoch calls the ‘Watchers’ cause the birth of Adam and Eve and the subsequent ‘conflict’, in which the Earth born ‘serpent’ nature created male and female expressions of the ‘Watchers’ Self. Neither Genisis or Enoch approximate a dateline when Adam and Ever were created. What we can be assured of is the existence of civilisations prior to the great flood which likely evolved over thousands of years. I suggest the incarnation of these intelligent beings (that Enoch calls the rebellious angels) evolved gradually, not as religious texts imply as immediate.

The incarnated ‘intelligence’ must ingest common matter to maintain their Self natured body. Now driven by their incarnation to unite and achieve the stability of Self they alternatively seek to harmonise male and female but the process of doing this causes births of ‘lesser selves’. Ultimately their migrating Self influences the development of Homo Sapiens whose brain capacity exponentially grew bigger. Initially (for some thousands of years) some human forms of birth are very large -anywhere between 9 and 15 ft. tall with corresponding girths and possessed of great strength.

Before proceeding further it’s important to understand the Watchers advised by Enoch as Sons of God were prior to incarnating as physical (Light) matter beings, were an embodied Dark Matter variant. In other words they were observing human development unseen. Dark Matter customises itself to the regular matter it interreacts with. Whilst scientists have been able to identify clumping of dark matter in light matter galactic formations, they have yet to understand how or why this gravitational pull (attraction) to regular matter occurs.

Neither does physics yet know the structural nature of Dark Matter. What they do know is Dark Matter represents 85% or all Matter.  The driving force of Dark Matter is Dark Energy. Scientists know it is the primal driving force in the universe, but they have no knowledge (at present) of its composition, how or why it occurs. They do know when the formation of regular matter changes its Black Matter counterpart changes too, insofar it is still present whatever the ongoing formation of regular matter changes into. What they don’t realise or can in any way accept is when living organisms die their Black Matter counterparts continue to evolve!

Dark Energy has gravitational pulling power which positively affects the growth of life forms. Dark Matter is said to interact extremely weakly with ordinary matter and does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, but over time it has a positive changing effect on regular matter. Which does suggest Dark Matter vibrates at speeds greater than the speed of light.

The creation of the ‘Eve’ population was clearly a variant on the initial ‘Adam’ migration with much closer alignment with Earth’s energies that ultimately caused them to take on ‘human’ forms. Their changed hybrid forms now required, in addition to their cosmic nature, Earth born energies to sustain their form of consciousness. Giants( advised by Enock as the Nephilim)  were born and their hybrid nature varied -some needing more Earth bearing energies than others and intent on evolving differently conflicted with other forms of ‘Man’ evolving I suggest from the Homo heidelbergensis varient of Man.

The larger part of Enoch’s writing describes how the ‘Holy Ones’ on witnessing mayhem of Earth punished these ‘rebellious angels’ in such ways that suggests the Earth itself would suffer cataclysmic upheavals. The text goes on to describe how he (Enoch) was taken up into the Seventh Heaven and shown how and why the ‘Holy Ones’ were both judge and jury and given the task of informing the rebellious angels what would happen to them on Earth. all this suggests Enoch had unlimiting powers, himself a migrated ‘Watcher’ in human form later transformed into the angel Metatron, given a throne, crown, and titles such as “Prince of the Presence” and “Lesser YHWH.”

Enoch not only names the rebellious leaders; Shemyaza, who was the overall leader, Urakiba, Ramshel, Kokabel, Tamiel, Ratsamel, Daniel, Ezeqiel, Barakel, Azazel, Armaros, Batriel, Ananel, Zakiel, Shemshiel, Shahariel, Toniel, Turiel, Yamiel, and Zahariel, he further states there were 200 angels and cryptically “and of all the others with them”. He names some of these Angels taught men hidden knowledge, particularly focussing on Azazel who “taught men to make swords, and daggers, and shields, and breastplates. And he showed them the metals of the earth, and the art of working them, and gold and silver bracelets and ornaments, and the art of making up the eyes with antimony and eye-paint, and of beautifying the face, and the most precious and choice stones, and all kinds of coloured dyes”.

He goes on to say the leader of the leaders, Shemyaza, “taught spells against the mind, and the use of cut roots of plants, and Armaros magical skills and the release of spells, and Barakel taught astrologers, and Kokabel portents of the stars, and Tamiel taught portents of the weather, and Shahariel taught the path of the Moon. And they all began to reveal these mysteries to their wives and their children”.

Enoch initially names the Holy Ones; Michael, Uriel, Raphael and Gabriel (and later more…), saying that MEN petitioned them to prevail upon the ‘Most High great and Holy One’ to prevent the destruction of the Earth. Clearly, Michael, Uriel, Raphael and Gabriel were Archangels having dominion over the development of human life on Earth. He goes on to say; Shemyaza and Azazel were given authority by the Archangels to reveal the ‘secrets of heaven’, which is kind of saying that the Archangels were responsible for the destruction that was taking place on Earth!

In chapter 12 Enoch tells us “the Watchers called to me, Enoch the scribe, and said to me: Enoch, scribe of righteousness, go and inform the Watchers of Heaven, who have left the High Heaven and the sanctuary of the Eternal Covenant, and have corrupted themselves with the women, and have done as the sons of men do, and have taken wives for themselves, and have become completely corrupt on the Earth. They will have on Earth, neither peace, nor forgiveness of sin, for they will not rejoice in their sons. The slaughter of their beloved ones they will see; and over the destruction of their sons they will lament and petition for ever. But they will have neither mercy nor peace.”

The Watchers in Heaven are ‘Angels’ who did not incarnate and are distancing themselves from those who did incarnate. In chapter 13 Enoch now goes to Azazel (note.. not the leader of the rebellious angels Shemyaza) to say, ““You will not have peace.  A severe sentence has come out against you: That you should be bound. And, you will have neither rest, nor mercy, nor the granting of any petitions, because of the wrong which you have taught, and because of all the works of blasphemy, and wrong, and sin, which you have shown to the sons of men. And then, I went and spoke to them, all together, and they were all afraid; fear and trembling seized them.”

Despite the admonition the rebellious angels still make a petition!

“And they asked me to write out, for them, the record of a petition, so that they might receive forgiveness, and to take a record of their petition up to the Lord in Heaven. For they were not able, from then on, to speak, and they did not raise their eyes to Heaven, out of shame for the sins for which they had been condemned. And then I wrote out the record of their petition, and their supplication, in regard to themselves, and the deeds of each one of them, and in regard to what they asked; that they should obtain absolution and length of days.”

Then in chapter 15, the ‘Holy Ones’ who are the Watchers in Heaven instruct Enoch “go say, to the Watchers of Heaven, who sent you to petition on their behalf: You ought to petition on behalf of men, not men on behalf of you!”, which is a bit confusing, to say the least, but it can only mean the giants as sired by the ‘Adam and Eve’ incarnations were petitioning the ‘Holy Ones’ to excuse their actions which caused ‘normal’ men to suffer.

Some giants maintained the cosmic order of consciousness and attempted to create harmony between the various forms that had evolved and ultimately the changing nature of the Earth’s atmosphere and surface life caused upheavals in the Earth which resulted in a changed landscape and great floods. Many perished. Some, however, survived the Great Flood.

The conclusion must be when accounting for the ‘evidence’ of religious texts and the physical evidence of Anthropology, and physics, and it must be said the so-called mythical evidence of civilisations prior the Great Flood, the beginnings of Man took place over many thousands of years, and his uniqueness was created by the interaction of an ‘alien’ intelligence.

In summary of this six-part series ‘The Beginnings of Man …..

I began this series of writings by acknowledging the nature of Man has evolved over millions of  years. The evidence given by palaeontology dates the beginnings of Man to around 6–7 million years ago with the emergence of early hominins in Africa.  Homo erectus (“upright man”) appeared around 1.9 million years ago and persisted until at least 110,000 years. The earliest homo sapiens (according to Anthropology) were hunter-gatherers, and around 13,000 years ago, the Neolithic Revolution introduced agriculture and permanent settlements -and that is the beginning of the Flood period that ended approximately 9’000 years BCE.

Today there is still more unknown than known of the purpose and action of DNA in Man. Our self-interested view of other species assumes they either don’t have  self-awareness, or in the case of vertebrates it’s limited, and that is now knowing Dark Matter is 85% of all Matter! Our DNA knowledge cannot tell us the nature of Man’s consciousness. I suspect it could, if only  we were able to read the DNA’s Dark Matter composition!

Myths and Folklore posit the existence of human civilisations in Lemuria, Atlantis, Hyperborea, and Adamos in the pre and post Deluvian period which approximates to the ending of the Younger Dryas age 13’000 to12’000 BCE. Around 15 to10,000 years ago, the planet was emerging from the Pleistocene Ice Age into the Holocene, a period of more stable and warmer climate. Massive ice sheets, such as the Laurentide Ice Sheet in North America and the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in Europe, were rapidly retreating, releasing vast amounts of meltwater into the oceans causing global sea levels to rise, submerging low-lying coastal areas and reshaping continental coastlines and the disappearance of major land bridges that had connected continents. Physical evidence of ancient civilisations would have been lost in this major upheaval of earth masses.

Stories of a Great Flood appear in many cultures. In all these myths evolved Beings taught the Homo Sapiens survivors how to reclaim good soil, domesticate plants and trees, learn building techniques, mathematics, astronomy, and the ability to record their actions in symbolic forms of writing. And the earliest form of recorded history speaks of Gods interacting with humans, and in some accounts birthing gigantic forms of Man with powers able to harness and control the elemental order of the cosmological Earth. The Popol Vuh creation story is adamant that the Gods experimented, made mistakes!

Humans were flawed by Design!

Man’s ego mediates between the conscious and unconscious and guided by two concepts which often war with each other, namely a need to understand rights and wrongs and the belief in their self-creation; I am what I am. It is evident from recorded history the ego of Man is intent on self-creation. However, because the ancestral nature of Man is elemental in origin it means that the id -source of all his instinctual expressions can never be fully rationalised. In practise Man’s rational mind is constantly attempting to balance the promotion of his superego with the instinctual irrational impulses that are generated by his ancestral heritage. He is continually in conflict with himself, which is why history keeps repeating itself, or as some would say he never learns….

                His inability to consistently and truthfully channel instinctual awareness is entirely due to the development of his rational mind which restricts the id of his consciousness the ability to express awareness of his ancestral memory, implicit to his DNA. This points to a fundamental difference between himself and other forms of Earth Life. All forms of reflective consciousness, whatever the species, is a form of mind that interacts between the id and the superego. We can confidently say the behavioural responses of vertebrates bar Man are predictable. Man’s human brain is said to be three times larger than our nearest Hominid ancestor, but that does not explain why we operates differently! 

Man so-called mythical and theological writings refer to a union between god-like beings and ‘Men’. The acceptance of God(s) creating Man is fundamental to the concept of all major religions, but they cannot tell you why God(s) chose to do so. For example in the book of Genisis it states the sons of God saw the daughters of Man were attractive, producing offspring described as “mighty men of old, men of renown”; giants who are also recorded in  Deuteronomy and Numbers. The concept of gods mating with men is a common theme in various mythologies and religions, for example, in Greek, Indian, and Islamic Mythology.

In simple terms the bible is telling us God created Man to live harmoniously in the Garden of Eden. Initially all was hunky dory until God decide Adam needs a mate and creates Eve who ‘misbehaves’. Adam doesn’t do anything to stop Eve.  God is furious and causes Adam to seed her with his sperm causing Eve to ever after to suffer the pangs of childbirth and banishes them both from the Garden. It looks like the omnipotent God wasn’t in control of His creation!

The writings of Enoch (banned from the bible) clearly predate the writing of Genisis, Deuteronomy and Numbers and clearly talk of an interaction between Gods and Men before and after the Great Flood. Modern commentators interpret his dire end of existence warnings as referring to Man in today’s world, but NO! These writings refer to actions between Gods and Men before the great flood 9’000 years BCE. Enoch identifies Watchers who have been observing Man’s development for a long period of time. He describes them as Sons of God at three levels; the Holy of Holy’s, the Holy Ones, and the Fallen Ones.

The Fallen Ones, rebellious Angels of God, mate with Man and create giants offsprings he calls the Nephilim, some supporting Man’s development, others intent on their destruction. Enoch’s ‘Garden’ is not a utopian paradise. The Holy Ones, Archangels are clearly complicit in causing the arrival on Earth of the fallen Ones and it takes the Holy of Holy’s guidance to ensure the Holy Ones reject the petition from the Fallen Angels who want ‘absolution of their sins’ and cause their destruction by all manners of earthly upheavals, which would be in the period of time we recognise as the Pleistocene Ice Age merging into the Holocene period which approximates to 9’000 years BCE.

Enoch not only identifies the Holy Ones and the Fallen Ones by name and the genealogy of ‘Jewish’ names prior to great flood it is clear from other Jewish writings they continued after the flood. The rebellious angels taught Man skills (eternal truths) he hitherto did not have; Astrology, Astronomy, climatology, knowledge to utilise Earth energies, weapons to make war and how to defend against it, and civilised men to build communities and ‘beatify’ themselves. And he appears to be saying this was after they mated with men and their offsprings all spoke the same language.

With these skills the Nephilim and their offsprings attempted to unify an order of ‘humanity’ that would unite with the ‘Holy of Holy’s’ but as recorded in Genisis the ‘Tower of Babel’ was destroyed, and a multitude of languages became apparent in Man on Earth.

These are the kind of skills which folklore says were possessed by the inhabitants of Lemuria, Atlantis and other pre-Deluvian civilisations.  And after the great flood we see the same skills gradually emerging again. And, by the way, we also see the continued existence of giants, the most famous being Goliath, said to 10ft tall, who wielded a spear whose head weighed over 15 pounds! Not just in the Middle East. There is evidence to show they were present in Mesopotamia, North and South America where likewise men were being taught by evolved beings the skills as shown in Enoch.

Whilst Enoch advises ‘Kings’ who lived for hundreds of years, the Sumerian pre-flood writings refer to ‘Kings’ who lived for many thousands of years. And what does all this mean less the religious symbolism the stories are presented as?

An intelligent race of Beings incarnate into the form of Man with mixed results. Unable to undo what they have done, warring between different kinds of their offsprings and the changing nature of the physical earth ultimately creating a form of Man who survives the Great Flood, but he is unable knowledgably to know of his origins.

It is clear these originating Beings were not composed of Light Matter and during the incarnation cycle, over thousands of years, Light Matter dominated the Dark Matter composition of the emergence of Man and created a form of consciousness that is self-destructive.

The causal change to the human race, as I have described, is present in Man today, but the order of our consciousness is bent on self-destruction. What needs to change if we are to survive as a species?

I intend to address this question in my next series of writings entitled ‘Back to the Future’.

The Beginnings of Man -Part 2

To understand why the nature of man is different from other species, we must first establish what our differences are from the primate world we physically evolved from….

Man’s inner characteristics are altogether different from the ancestral root which governs other species. Why then is he so different?

If you haven’t read Part 1 -here it is The Beginnings of Man -Part 1 – Mine Quick Voice of Aquarius

To understand why the nature of man is different from other species, we must first establish what our differences are from the primate world we physically evolved from. Our closest ‘relatives’ the apes, gorillas, and chimpanzees are like Man, family orientated, having respect for the hierarchical order of age and experience and are protective of their environment to ensure the safe upbringing of their young and provision of food. They do not desire to dominate other species or their like and will only kill or disable to protect their kind and the territory which enables their way of life. Their memory is instinctually formed from community needs. Their ego which is part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and unconscious is instinctually driven by their ancestral nature.

Human beings will go further to engage and unify with different kinds of people. They practice the hierarchy of blood ties but will not allow procreation to govern hierarchies of order considered necessary to defend the interests of like-minded need. They have an innate desire to dominate and control other species, and memory goes far beyond the need to remember place, person, and life-giving support. The ego that mediates between the conscious and unconscious is guided by two concepts which often war with each other, namely a need to understand rights and wrongs and the belief in their self-creation; I am what I am.

Whilst the environment engenders Man’s survival instinct so also does his self-awareness which ultimately governs his survival needs. It is evident from recorded history the ego of Man is intent on self-creation. Whilst conceptual values are broadly common across all ethnically different populations, conscious interpretation to effect the superego varies widely.  Whilst Man’s instinctual nature to survive is primarily engendered by the environment, it is the ego which decides the cause of threat, the outcome of which will always be predicated by the awareness of Self as understood by the ego.

Because the ancestral nature of Man is elemental in origin it means that the id -source of all his instinctual expressions can never be fully rationalised. In practise Man’s rational mind is constantly attempting to balance the promotion of his superego with the instinctual irrational impulses that are generated by his ancestral heritage.

The result? He is continually in conflict with himself, which is why history keeps repeating itself, or as some would say he never learns….

The Darwinian evolution theory states that species evolve over time through natural selection, where advantageous traits increase an organism’s chances of survival and reproduction. Molecular biology and genetics have confirmed physically formed evolutionary relationships, such as the close genetic similarity between humans and chimpanzees and acknowledges all living organisms share common ancestors, but the sciences are unable to explain how the uniqueness of man’s evolution was caused or why his egocentric development is so markedly different to our nearest physical ancestors. Survival of the fittest does not give an adequate answer. And so it follows his relationship with the environment is different to all other individualised life species.

In addition to individualised species, perennial plant life is by far the most widespread kind of life on Earth. Man does not describe it as having consciousness as he defines that only able of a species who is consciously aware of evolving self-creatively; the ‘I think so I am’ argument. Perennial plant life and its interactivity with the elements of fire, water, air, and earth have a major influence on Man. In accordance with seasonal life cycles, weather conditions, and cosmical influences, the perennial life world can undo and destroy Man’s physical creations.

And as Man’s sensorial nature is directly influenced by environmental changes they do affect the balance of the mental and emotional order of his mind. It is accepted many species have conscious awareness of impending change, both internally and externally before they become physically fact. Man however is overly dependent upon the rational mind to advise conscious awareness and will dismiss or repress the instinctual response which is trying to advise him.

His inability to consistently channel instinctual awareness is entirely due to the development of his rational mind which restricts the id of his consciousness the ability to express awareness of his ancestral memory, implicit to his DNA. This points to a fundamental difference between himself and other forms of Earth Life, all of whom maintain awareness of their ancestral mind as expressed by their instinctual nature.

Is it possible that some form of unearthly life affected the development of Man, and were causal of the difference between himself and other forms of Earthly life? We know the Earth has historically been impacted by meteors, fireballs, solar flares, and planetary gravitational pulls, altering land and sea masses, their vibrational nature absorbed into the Earth’s crust, but such physical and neo-physical phenomenon would also have influenced all other life forms, including our nearest ancestors.

To understand why humans are a uniquely different species and regard themselves as the Overlord of all other Earth forms of life we need to understand the nature of his consciousness.

Scientific research has been said to say some individual species don’t know they exist because they don’t possess reflective consciousness, i.e., the ability to know the self, and because they are driven by and totally possessed by the id. We should not accept this analysis because the instinctual self as manifested in a moving form exhibit both physiological and behavioural responses ultimately aimed at propagation which is compulsively selective. This means that vertebrates have awareness of what their need demands and that is a form of reflective consciousness.

                And any form of reflective consciousness, whatever the species, is a form of mind that interacts between the id and the superego. So, for example because a fish can feel pain it does so because it possesses reflective consciousness. Some animals, including our nearest mammalian world relatives the chimpanzees have well-developed egos, a strongly developed interaction between their id and Superego which for them is a function of their societal memory and parental standards.        

So how does Man’s reflective consciousness, the awareness of self, differ from his nearest mammalian relatives? In our own terms we describe our consciousness as the awareness of one’s mental states arising from the interactivity of the ego enabling the evaluation of thoughts, feelings, and experiences. And this differs in one critical aspect to the highest form of ego development in our nearest genetically comparable species, the chimpanzee, namely it is the ability to be selectively aware of our own mental states and decisively able to change their order and priority. Whereas the chimpanzee capacity to change order and priority is governed by the id’s memory reception. To put it another way their behavioural responses are predictable.

It is not because human brain is three times larger, but because it operates differently. Recent studies have shown that whilst we share anywhere from 96-99% of our DNA with the chimpanzee there are areas which instead of producing proteins, act by changing the formation and tactics of protein producing genes, which in simple English means humans have a DNA structure that enables thinking!

Am I saying that Chimpanzees don’t think? No I am not. What is different in Man is his ability to reason, whereas the chimpanzee only considers and decides on need. When human beings reason they invoke the order of their self-centred ego, which is forever unsatisfied with the responses!

Part 3 next week!

Old as the Hills

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In this world where all truths must have objective criteria, in other words -seen to be believed, day to day life functions on two levels. On the one hand we must adhere to directions promoted by the factual world for our material needs, on the other -inwardly define our present and future on a ‘what if’ basis. Invariably our ‘what if’ mind is a subjective narrative which is stimulated by our desires -more of, or less of, reacting to the strictures of our must have needs.

        Now, the question is this -should our must have needs be driven by the ‘truths’ of the objective world, or should they manifest from our higher nature -that state of consciousness which is not governed by the time/form expression of knowledge?

        The question is as old as the hills. In good times when our relationships are secure, daily needs equitably met, and futures holding no fears, it rarely bugged the mind for answer -in fact the question isn’t formulated. In our present world where needs at all levels have become insecure by an unseen enemy and fear underwrites all enquiry, many are running around like headless chickens because their state of consciousness is not governed by their higher nature.

        If you type into Google the word Soul, Wikipedia has the top spot describing it as a computer-animated comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney pictures, if you refine the search to ask what is the soul of a person, you get this; ‘Soul or psyche (Ancient Greek: ψυχή psykhḗ, of ψύχειν psýkhein, “to breathe”) comprises the mental abilities of a living being: reason, character, feeling, consciousness, qualia, memory, perception, thinking, etc. Depending on the philosophical system, a soul can either be mortal or immortal.’

The hanger is in the last sentence -either or! As I said to begin with, ‘all truths must have objective criteria’. To state the Soul can be mortal or immortal is frankly, nonsense! It gets worse! If you Google the word Spirit, top of the list you get a dictionary definition, to whit; ‘the non-physical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character; the soul.’

Clearly, the information world, the governor of our daily needs, not only doesn’t know the difference between Soul and Spirit, neither can it make up its mind if its mortal or immortal. This is why my question is as ‘old as the hills’ -and why I’ve had to formulate it today. We seem to have forgotten what the ‘driver’ is!

I guess the next qualifying question is; ‘How do I know if the ‘driver’ is present?’ You can’t even begin to know if your mind is constantly cluttered with day-to-day wants and fretting about relationships. The start point requires SPACE -yes, space -periods of time when you are consciously clear of your concerns, when the moment is not an avenue to receive or give out, but a moment that allows all thought and feeling to be acknowledged -accepted, and released, in other words when you don’t try to OWN anything. You don’t have to be sitting cross-legged on the floor invoking a deity, or mentally intoning positive thoughts. There’s nothing wrong about such actions but they don’t create space.

To achieve space -walk, preferably unencumbered by bags with your phone switched off. The movement at walking pace, around 2-3 mph, enables you to observe by a process of acknowledgement and acceptance of what you see, hear, or smell, and the act of movement causes release. Provided it’s not your own back garden, nothing you are sensorily aware of belongs to you, so you can accept without conditions. If you do that, truly observing, your own possessive thoughts, no matter how positive or negative they might be, will not intrude, and the result will be a calmer feel better state of overall health on completing the exercise than it was before you started.

When you do this the ‘driver’ will be present. No -it’s not evidenced by a discarnate voice or the sudden arousal of a positive sense of wellbeing. The evidence is in how you subsequently deal with day-to-day events, and the needs thereof. The higher nature we all have is eternally present, it is not judgemental, neither does it demand, or relate to your own or others assessment of your worth. What it does do is give you awareness of self-purpose

Practise, and I can assure you life will have better meaning. Headless chickens will not disturb you!

The poem I’ve written for today is a herald of summer but it has just as much meaning in November & December!

Seeking Winds of May

Down the winding lane I walk
hid by hedge and under bough
that skirl their leafy sounds anyhow
in the seeking winds of May.

Going nowhere with a purpose
talking secrets with my feet
marching to the cyclic beat
of natural worlds at play.

Pausing at the path smooth head
over which the white clouds scud
stopping, watching cows chew cud
hear the dark horse neigh.

Ambition-less, I am asexual
just conscious of my nose
down I go where the river flows
to greet the end of day.

Not wanting less than everything
I sit rod-less on its banks
eyeing the silver fishes’ shanks
oblivious of time.

Then someone overshadows me
Bow in hand, feminine and fey
and about me SHE draws a line

in the seeking winds of May.