'The Process'

In my last blog I referred to The Process.

What do I mean by ‘the Process’?

I am talking about a concept regarding human historical/civilizational evolution.  The Marxists believe in a concept - 'coined' originally by the German philosopher F. Hegel - called dialectical materialism, whereby the outcome of the historical ‘process’ is a materialistic superstate, controlling people, from the top down, to within an inch of their lives, ‘for the greater good’.

Let me parse this idea a bit.  Let’s call the United States, with its founding ideas of the rights of the individual, in a religious setting,* and in the context of a conglomeration of nation-states, a ‘thesis’ - a statement of position.  And let’s call Red China, with its founding ideas of the power of the state over the people, in a global and purely materialistic context, an ‘antithesis’ to the thesis of the U.S.’s position.  Not as the end of the historical ’process’ as the Marxists believe that sort of state to be.  Which leaves an additional step to such a concept: that of

the Synthesis.  Which, before the historical process became global in character, just became the ‘thesis’ to another stage of unfolding.  But with the process having reached the global level, a final stage - called the Synthesis - can come into being.

What would it look like.

Well, it would like something that could be called the kingdom of heaven.  A global state that combined elements of both aspects of The Process.  Thus, it would -

balance the rights of the individual against 'the greater good’ - ‘the greatest good of the greatest number’.  And it would move beyond just religions into a more accurate stage of development along those lines, of the recognition that ‘there is more than Man ‘ - that life is about/has a larger context than just the materialistic one.  That we are, as French Catholic priest and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin so succinctly put it, ‘spiritual beings having a human experience’.  And thus, our civilization should reflect that truth.

When we get to that point.

Which we are in, and to.  As we speak.

Now.  How do we know that we are such beings.  Rather than that life is simply a matter of ‘survival of the fittest,’ red in tooth and claw. 

It is our good fortune to have been able to have people tell us, with documented evidence, that they have lived before, where they were, and what happened to them.  Through personal stories, studies, books, videos, etc., that evidence has become part of our basic understanding of life.  And therefore, there is the evidence of a Process.  Of a Plan in and Purpose to life, beyond just in and for itself only.  And that Purpose can easily be summed up in the statement:

Life is a school.  The purpose is to graduate.

Meaning.  We have experiences, that ‘rub us’ up against each other, and from which we incur something called ‘karma,’ that we have to work out.  Not in a retributive sense so much as the sense of a learning experience.  Learning that actions have consequences; and to take responsibility for our actions.  And thereby, getting to a state of Balance.  To cleaning our slate.

And thereby, readying ourselves for advancement.  To the next ‘grade’.  

And as a whole world, in its state of Synthesis, now about to head for the stars.  And having proven ourselves worthy of such a stage, of development.  Having cleaned up our act at our home base.

A New Earth, and a New Heaven.  Ours for the taking.  

If we are Up to it.  

And how do we prove that we are up to it?

By ridding ourselves of the dirty business of warring among ourselves.

And how do we do that?

Besides recognizing that We Are One Another - that All is One - we do it by

getting rid of the monetary and financial system that we have been laboring under.  For long enough.  With its concepts of 'interest,' and ‘profit’.  Which are only that: concepts.

Well, it is all also a motivation factor.  For people to do things, in order to ‘make a profit’ out of it.  I have a better idea for a motivating factor; and given the truths mentioned herein.  That we share our goods and services with one another - 

and give of our best in the, er, process - 

out of a higher motive than that of making a profit out of the deal.  That we do things

out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning. 

Out of, in a word:

Love.

As 'a piece of the continent, a part of the main’

of what Life is all about.

For heaven’s sake.

And ours.

As apprentice gods.

Getting closer to

our ultimate

graduations. 

Into a state - call it a superstate; call it the superstate - 

of Oneness

with

The All.

At the end - the very end - of

The Process.

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* as one of its Founding Fathers, John Adams, who for what it's worth was an ancestor of mine, observed: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

   Obviously, the point being, in order to keep unbridled Individualism in check.