PARADISE ON A BUN TO GO
EXTRA MAYO
SLICE OF AMNESIA
NOVEMBER 8, 2010. The idea of One Final Consciousness, in which every individual should participate, has swept through the world. It has become as firmly rooted in the culture as the burger.
In the film Avatar, the Na’vi species even have a “cord and a plug,” so they can enter the bio-consciousness of their forest. Directly.
This fad began in the 1960s, when Eastern spiritual thought was simplified, twisted, and imported to the West.
If the notion of the free individual, as framed in the basic documents of the American Republic, was already on the wane, it took its biggest hit as this Eastern hodge-podge mish-mash enveloped pop culture.
There were supporting premises, promoted by Western spiritual teachers: the difference between ego and self is negligible; ego is destructive; ego is an effort to falsely separate away from larger consciousness; self is an illusion; with enlightenment, a person surrenders the illusion and gloriously joins the homogenized cosmos.
Environmentalists took on these premises for their own use. Ego-separation fenced humans off from Nature and led to the destruction of the natural world and its “web of life.”
James Lovelock, the formulator of the Gaia Hypothesis—all life on Earth is one bio-collective organism—wrote:
“This new interrelationship of Gaia with man is by no means fully established; we are not yet a truly collective species, corralled and tamed as an integral part of the biosphere…”
One of his disciples, Al Gore, offered this, in Earth in the Balance:
“This we know: the Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.”
I’m pointing out the underlying philosophical idea here: the distinct and unique individual is an illusion.
The extent to which this premise and its derivative branches have taken hold is illustrated by the widely held generalization that “man is destroyer.”
That summary of the human being is so popular it is, in many circles, considered as final as, well, the science of manmade global warming.
Whatever is left of the ideal of the free individual is being phased out, as quickly as “higher collective beings,” such as Al Gore, Maurice Strong, Mikhail Gorbachev, et al, can accomplish it, on behalf of Gaia.
Of course, as leaders of humankind-as-melted-down-butter, these men are permitted to retain their status as powerful individuals, because they are benighted, blessed with a holy mission that requires jets, large estates, personal fortunes, and teams of assistants. These leaders suffer, for a little while, the pain of pretending they are separated egos, so that the rest of us may give up that ghost and merge into the Oneness of the All.
In case there was any doubt about why the study of the founding of the American Republic has become, in, most places, an arcane enterprise, we have the answer.
The idea of the free individual (even though it has been inexorably propagandized as universal licentiousness, crime, greed, and destruction) is still a threat.
New Education informs us that self, ego, nature, biology, and freedom are now sub-categories of an overriding material and spiritual collective, and the individual must be permitted to fall deeper and deeper into a slumber which precludes him from remembering himself.
That’s the future, as it’s being sketched in by glorious, meek, submissive, holy, altruistic, prophetic, money-making billionaires, in their castles.
JON RAPPOPORT
Jon Rappoport is the author of a unique course, LOGIC AND ANALYSIS, for home schoolers and adults. For inquiries, qjrconsulting@gmail.com