Natural law
- From: jak1949@xxxxxxxxx (Jack McKinney)
- Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:01:00 -0500
THIS IS SETH MATERIAL, AND THIS MATERIAL IS A COMPLETE PACKAGE IN AND OF
ITSELF. NO HELP WANTED OR NEEDED.
Religious laws deal with sin, whether or not a crime is committed, and
religious concepts usually take it for granted that the individual is
guilty until proven innocent. And if you have not committed a crime in
fact, then you have at least sinned in your heart -- for which, of
course, you must be punished. A sin can be anything from playing cards
to having a sexual fantasy. You are sinful creatures. How many of you
believe that?
You were born with an inbuilt recognition of your own goodness. You were
born with the inner recognition of your rightness in the universe. You
were born with a desire to fulfill your abilities, to move and act in
the world. Those assumptions are the basis of what I will call natural
law.
You are born loving. You are born compassionate. You are born curious
about yourself and your world. Those attributes also belong to natural
law. You are born knowing that you possess a unique, intimate sense of
being that is itself, and seeks its own fulfillment, and the fulfillment
of others. You are born seeking its actualization of the ideal. You are
born seeking to add value to the quality of life, to add
characteristics, energies, abilities to life that only you can
individually contribute to the world, and to attain a state of being
that is uniquely yours, while adding to the value fulfillment of the
world.
All of these qualities and attributes are given to you by natural law.
You are a cooperative species, and you are a loving one. Your
misunderstandings, crimes, and your atrocities, real as they are, are
seldom committed out of any intent to be evil, but because of severe
misunderstandings about the nature of good, and the means that can be
taken toward its actualization. Most individual people know that in some
inner portion of themselves. Your societies, governments, educational
systems, are all built around a firm belief in the unreliability of
human nature. "You cannot change human nature." Such a statement takes
it for granted that man's nature is to be greedy, a predator, a murderer
at heart. You act in accordance with your own beliefs. You become the
selves that you think you are. Your individual beliefs become the
beliefs of your society, but there is always a give-and-take.
The formation of a better kind of mass reality -- a reality that can
happen as more individuals begin to come in contact with the true nature
of the self. Then we will have less frightened people, and fewer
fanatics, and each person involved can to some extent begin to see the
"ideal" come into practical actualization. The means never justify the
ends.
When I speak of natural law, I am not referring to the scientists' laws
of nature, such as the law of gravity, for example -- which is not a law
at all, but a manifestation appearing from the viewpoint of a certain
level of consciousness as a result of perceptive apparatus. Your
"prejudiced perception" is also built into your instruments in that
regard.
I am speaking of the inner laws of nature, that pervade existence. What
you call nature refers of course to your particular experience with
reality, but quite different kinds of manifestations are also "natural"
outside of that context. The laws of nature that I am in the process of
explaining underlie all realities, then, and form a firm basis for
multitudinous kinds of "natures." I will put these in your terms of
reference, however.
Each being experiences life as if it were at life's center. This applies
to a spider in a closet as well as to any man or woman. This principle
applies to each atom as well. Each manifestation of consciousness comes
into being feeling secure at life's center -- experiencing life through
itself, aware of life through its own nature. It comes into being with
an inner impetus toward value fulflilment. It is equipped with a feeling
of safety, of security within its own environment with which it is fit
to deal. It is given the impetus toward growth and action, and filled
with the desire to impress its world.
The term "value fulfillment" is very difficult to explain but it is very
important. Obviously it deals with the development of values -- not
moral values, however, but values for which you really have no adequate
words. Quite simply, these values have to do with increasing the quality
of whatever life the being feels at its center. The quality of that life
is not simply to be handed down or experienced, for example, but is to
be creatively added to, multiplied, in a way that has nothing to do with
quantity.
In those terms, animals have values, and if the quality of their lives
disintegrates beyond a certain point, the species dwindles. We are not
speaking of survival of the fittest, but the survival of life with
meaning. Life is meaningful for animals. The two are indistinguishable.
You say little, for example, if you note that spiders make webs
instinctively because spiders must eat insects, and that the best
web-maker will be the fittest kind of spider to survive. It is difficult
for me to escape the sticky web of your beliefs. The web, however, in
its way represents an actualized ideal on the part of the spider. You
might say that the spider wonders that art can be so practical.
What about the poor unsuspecting fly? Is it then so enamored of the
spider's web that it loses all sense of caution? For surely flies are
the victims of such nefarious webby splendors. We are into sticky stuff
indeed.
For one thing, you are dealing with different kinds of consciousness
than your own. They are focused consciousness, surely, each one feeing
itself at life''s center. While this is the case, however, these other
forms of consciousness also identify then with the source of nature
which they emerge. In a way impossible to explain, the fly and spider
are connected, and aware of the connection. Not as hunter and prey, but
s individual participants in deeper processes. Together they work toward
a joint kind of value fulfillment, in which both are fulfilled.
There are communions of consciousness now which you are unaware. While
you believe in theories like the survival of the fittest, however, and
the grand fantasies of evolution, then you put together your perception
of the world so that they seem to bear out those theories. You will see
no value in the life of a mouse sacrificed in the laboratory, for
example, and you will project claw-and fang battles in nature,
completely missing the great cooperative venture that is involved.
Men can become deranged if they believe life has no meaning. Religion
has made gross errors. at least it held out an afterlife, a hope of
salvation and preserved -- sometimes despite itself -- the tradition of
the heroic soul. Science, including psychology, by what it has said, and
by what it has neglected to say, has come close to a declaration that
life itself is meaningless. This is a direct contradiction of deep
biological knowledge, to say nothing of spiritual truth. It denies the
meaning of biological integrity. It denies the practical use of those
very elements that he needs as a biological creature: the feeling that
he is at life's center, that he can act safely in his environment, that
he can trust himself and that his being and his actions have meaning.
Seth
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