Facing Our Darkside

Across the planet earth mankind is turning in on himself, but remains, for the most part, unconscious of the fact. Like an alcoholic remains in a state of denial (willful ignorance) about his condition, he simply doesn't realize! Nor does he particularly want to. Having been well-programed by culture to fixate on the image of things, and by acquiring the product he desires, escaping into the gratification that comes with materialism/egoism (like an alcoholic escapes into booze, a drug addict into the bodily sensation or a propagandist into his own spin), he sells himself on a way of life that can be best described as "cut and run", refusing to deal directly with the energy (pressure) that afflicts him--but which is his life. He will not take the "heat" or responsibility for his own behavior...for the way in which he sees and projects himself at this moment. And he always has an excuse: mother looked cross-eyed at me when I was three, or whatever. I speak now of the human material condition, of duality, sensory perception, ego.

The human ego/personality is an escape artist and a pretender. Cut off from the Whole self, as a split-personality he blames the "other" for everything he sees but cannot accept in himself. Like the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a conflict (is not all conflict some form of guilt?) is projected by the human psyche, and instead of investigating the conflict internally and by understanding what's actually coming down and resolving it with compassion, the two rival factions, each blaming and hating the other in an attempt to escape their own culpability, continue to make war on each other until the human psyche is destroyed. See a parallel here, perhaps, between Arab and Western cultures, not to mention, republicans and democrats?

Indeed, when culture, to feed its collective craving for whatever, gives sanction to immorality destructive things start to happen...and these things get worse! Moral authority collapses (the gods lose their magic, so to speak) and culture compacts into a mode of "collective self-undoing", packaging and spinning a perverse (or is it progressive?) behavior or perpetual state of self-victimization. And with the politicalization of this state, the conflict--and the guilt associated with it--in having become politically correct, increases, until, finally, after doing much violence to himself, the victim (us), like an alcoholic, bottoms out. And so it is that this way leads in the end to oblivion: to disillusionment, despair and death.

The 20th Century is on record as the most violent century in history, and there's no reason, considering man's past, not to believe the 21st will be even more violent. But will mankind pay heed to any such warning? Can he? The alcoholic is out of control and so is mankind as a materialist and egoist! And, as most alcoholics have to bottom out first, losing everything, before they will accept help, will not the same be true for mankind as a materialist/egoist? Will not cultures fall like dominoes before the century is out? Mankind will have to face his "darkside" before it's too late, and discover Who and what we Are. So, what is a righteous person to do?

Face his darkside, of course, now! Confront, penetrate, understand and resolve it. Instead of continuing to play the "image game", pretending to be what the ego-personality is not, and in actuality can never be, any person who has his mind set on liberation (Dr. Jekyll, "white hat") needs to stare directly into his darkside (Mr. Hyde, "black hat") and annihilate the conflict (attachment) by seeing through it...seeing/being Before (through) all the images, emotions and actions projected by his ego/personality!

Mankind lives the image of life, not life as a Whole. This is because he identifies with his body/personality instead of with his Spirit/God, our innermost Being. But we Are that Energy-Consciousness or pure Intelligence which gave rise to this moment, not the form it takes which, like a reflection in a mirror, is an extension of Us but is not Us, not the Center (Source) of Awareness! But when we identify with the reflection (image of life) in the mirror as ourself then that becomes the center and we are cut off from the Soul Reflector, our Intubeing! In our isolation we see everything as existing outside of ourself in space or mind instead of from Within us and As Us, the Whole Consciousness!

Thus, to the ego/personality the universe is relative, subjective (though appearing objective), partial and temporal (maya). I refer to this as the "literal perspective" or, if you prefer, ego-satan, the very enemy that mankind faces in himself...and as himself! For only by passing through himself as the literal perspective will man see God, the "Nonliteral Perspective", ourself as a Whole (Christ Jesus/God in man)! Such Is the true Resurrection! Not a resurrection of the material body, which would be a resurrection of all the suffering that comes with it, but of the Holy Spirit (Nonego), man's true Self--which Is Selfless--and intusees through the universe in ourself that all things are nonthings, that is, Nonthingness, Complete in Ourself as a Whole (God)!

But mankind has entered into a dark night of the soul, his world view will crumble into dust, as it must, for ego/personality/satan is not the real doer of anything but his own undoing. His willfulness (pride) is not God, but an escape artist and a pretender, and as such a living death! Thus he goes before a fall, as he (we) must! The spiritual-minded (nonliteral perspective) among us understand this but the worldly-minded (literal perspective) do not. Like the alcoholic, they don't see through their need for gratification as an end, as a false absolute. They live the image, absorbing themselves in it. So the literal perspective dominates them, as it must!

Thus, fashioning a mind (world) dominated and continuely victimized by their own projection, the worldly breathe not the Energy-Consciousness behind the image and Within themselves, who Is ourself as a Whole (Nonliteral Perspective). It is not in the province of ego/personality to do so as the Totality of Being cannot be structured nor manipulated, controlled or exploited by the ego/personality. Such Rests "through" the psyche as an attitude of nonattachment and holy indifference, totally open, direct, free and nondependent. Therefore man will never literalize the Nonliteral, for the Totality of Being cannot be contained by the partiality of Being.

But when one's center of awareness is the Principal of Life (Nonego), the Word Is Lord, as duality, sensory perception, ego are no longer a problem--for we are seeing/being through the image (concept) and projection the One Reality or uncarved Block, the Totality of Being or Living Light that everything Is! The ego/personality cannot see (be) this, and never will. But in Spirit (God) we Are what We See, there being no division, no conflict (guilt), no attachment in us.

So, mankind is turning in on himself and entering a dark night of the soul, what do we do? Certainly not cut and run, nor make war on a supposed enemy outside ourself--but turn In and face our darkside directly--taking up our cross, and thus accepting full responsibility for our actions...not resorting to any excuses for that behavior nor blaming anyone for it, not even ourself. But seeing things just as they are, and seeing/being through them in ourself, understanding the pattern of behavior and psychological process behind our own (collective) self-victimization, behind the human material condition. The Truth shall set us free!

Mankind is coming undone, his worlds will collide and crumble, his myths will be shattered, his fears and insecurities and guilt will be exposed; thus we will stand alone before God, before the Living Energy that is our life! In the psychological process of our own self-undoing, we will know the truth about the human material condition and that will either lift us up to Heaven or bury us in hell; either Free us from our own ego/personality/satan or wrap our body-life in oblivion. The judgment and determination is ours!