第十章：重归觉醒 “如果你再也不能忍受疯狂，那么就只有一件事可做。 让自己委身于觉醒的庇护所吧。” ——斯瓦米·贝雍达南达 欢迎来到觉醒庇护所 正如任何康复疗程一样，回归觉醒之路始于承认问题本身。我们刚刚完成了穿越那块否认功能障碍的阴影国度的勇敢之旅。我们追踪了那些虚假的、过时的、不容置疑的信仰，诸如物质第一、适者生存、基因控制和随机进化，发现了它们不合逻辑的结论。我们已经清楚明白地看到了什么东西行不通。 借由走出这默默地管辖和局限了我们人生的无形信念之矩阵，我们认识到，我们已经创造了一个由我们最糟糕的恐惧和无意识的习惯所充斥的扭曲的映像所构成的世界。既然我们已经看到了这可怕的真相，《 自发的进化 》的其余部分将专注于其他的真相，也就是作为我们世界之共同创造者的我们所拥有的超棒的良机。 让我们借由探索觉醒的观念，开启我们第二部分的旅程。 首先，觉醒和正常的不一定是相同的状态。觉醒不是某种特质，无法通过举手来表决。正如心理学家与人文哲学家埃里希·弗洛姆提醒我们的，仅仅因为以百万计的人都有着相同的恶习，并不能使这些恶习变成美德。觉醒一词源于拉丁词 sanus ，意为“健康”。由于共享同样的词根，觉醒和健康的含义之间注定关系非常紧密。那些能让我们更健康的东西也能让我们更觉醒。反之亦然。 觉醒的健康特有的表征是个人判断或推理的可靠性——亦即心智的可靠性。不断地做出有缺陷的判断和推理的人，可以操作性定义为疯狂。 在集体主义文化中，判断和推理的前提是基础范式所感知的真相。因此，如果一种文化的范式信念不真实或有缺陷，那么有意地在那些错误的信念下运作的人群将集体表达不可靠的判断和推理。在这样的情况下，可以在技术上判断这整个群体都疯了。 例如，假设你持有一种陈旧的信念，认为你的基因注定要患乳腺癌或前列腺癌。在今天超遗传学和心理神经免疫学的观念看来，你得出这一结论所依的推理将被视为不可靠——或者完全疯了。幸运的是，你的情况只会是暂时的精神错乱，因为一旦你意识到环境、个人看法和生活方式能够影响基因活动和免疫系统，你将有机会积极影响和管理你的健康。 正如这个例子中所示的，文化中的神话错觉可以剥夺个体的力量，也可能导致目前威胁着我们生存的集体疯狂。然而，正如我们已经指出，文明的精神错乱状态只是暂时的，基于某些条件的。随着人群认识到新前沿科学对启示录中的四种神话错觉认识的修订，他们将会有机会做出不同的判断和推理，而后者则更加和谐，更能支持我们个人和集体的生存。 量子物理学揭示，尽管我们潜意识中的牛顿式分离信念想要让我们相信，每个粒子都是独立于其它粒子的实体，但实际上宇宙中的一切都以某种我们很难想象的方式连接在一起。我们认为坚实的、有形的东西，象物质和时间，其实只不过是一组关系，仅仅是在通过我们的感知去体验时才似乎变成了现实 。 我们很快就会看到的，自然界的模式，其实也包括宇宙的模式，都会在不同的复杂性水平上重复其自身。这意味着我们的健康不会止于我们的皮肤，或者对你们这些更加超自然的人们来说，不会止于我们光环的外缘。正如我们体内有 50 万亿个细胞一样，我们每个人也都是“人类”体内的细胞。所谓上行而下效。健康的细胞，健康的器官，健康的有机体，健康的团体，健康的生物圈。那么，所有这些都是最初的觉醒的后果。 觉醒不能存在于一个孤立的口袋里，从而很方便地否认世界其他部分的存在。真正的觉醒必须面对并拥抱当今世界的精神错乱，并在这个过程中，为这暂时的疯狂提供一种新的觉察，和一条达成和谐的途径。 我们鼓励觉醒在任何可能的地方的爆发，但我们更强调某种一致性的形态发生场，它已经开始改变世界的形态了。觉醒世界的一种新的运作原理可能是这样的： 人生是某种强大个体之间的合作之旅，它们有能力编程自身，以创造充满喜悦的生活。 将连接的主题再推进一步的话，觉醒是有关整合对立面，而不是在一个或另一个极端之中寻找避难所。想象一下，只带着你一半的智慧去生活的情境！难怪我们的社会制度看爱恋都这么象半个白痴的样子。觉醒意味着拥有完整的智慧，而这又意味着找出隐藏在相互斗争的二元性中间的整体性。例如，我们可能需要回到真正古老的宗教，只有当我们考量宗教这个词的根源含义的时候，这条道路才有意义。 正如英国政治作家大卫·爱德华兹在他的《 燃尽所有的幻相 》一书中指出的，宗教这个词源于拉丁文的 religare ，意思是“结合在一起 (tobind together) ”。 顺便说一下， ligare ，也是“韧带”一词的词根，后者是体内连接肌肉和骨骼的组成部分。虽然传统上这个“ bind ”已与义务联系在一起了——有人甚至会说是束缚或者奴役——但爱德华兹选择了一个更理性的解释。对他而言， religare 是指让个人重返社会、世界和宇宙。宗教一词的这个基本意义与某种人格神、神学或教条均无关。最重要的是，这个词意味着一致的连接，这种连接并不一定需要类似牧师的中间人。 不幸的是，宗教的这种更为深刻的意义被掩埋在一堆教条之下了。而剩下的任何能够连接人类与世界和宇宙的精神或哲学的韧带都在科学唯物论取代一神论时被切断了。 我们并没有能够从世俗和神学两种路径提取爱的智慧，相反地，我们把耶稣这个婴儿和洗澡水一起倒掉了。我们把信念投资给了物质世界，并允许自己相信力量或许能取代爱，并且与爱同样有效，甚至有过之而无不及。 但现在人类已经认识到，物质崇拜是一个明确无误的错误，我们越来越意识到，金钱之神既不能提供幸福，也不能终结痛苦。 因此，觉醒意味着我们从一种让人丧失力量的宗教或其他任何让人丧失力量的东西中毕业。觉醒意味着我们的成长已经度过了盲目顺从的童年和盲目反叛的青春期。觉醒意味着，作为神的孩子的我们把幼稚的东西放在了一边，终于成为成年的神。 Chapter 10 Going Sane “If you can’t take the craziness anymore,there’s only one thing to do. Commit yourself to a sane asylum.” —Swami Beyondananda Welcome to the Sane Asylum As withany recovery program, the road back to sanity begins with acknowledging theproblem. We have just taken a courageous journey through the shadow land ofdenied dysfunctionality. We have tracked false, obsolete, and unquestionedbeliefs in the primacy of matter, survival of the fittest, genetic control, andrandom evolution to their illogical conclusions. We’ve seen unequivocally whatdoesn’t work. Bystepping outside the matrix of invisible beliefs that have silently governedand limited our lives, we recognize we have created a world in the distortedimage of our worst fears and unconscious habits. Now that we have seen theawful truth, the rest of SpontaneousEvolution focuseson the other truth, which is the awesome opportunity we have as co-creators ofour world. Let’sbegin the second part of our journey by exploring the idea of sanity. First, beingsane and being normal aren’t necessarily the same condition. Sanity is not atrait that can be tabulated by a show of hands. As psychologist and humanisticphilosopher Erich Fromm reminds us, just because millions of people share thesame vices doesn’t make these vices virtues. 1 Sanity isderived from the Latin word sanus , which means “healthy.” By sharinga common root, the meaning of sanity and healthy are bound by a strongrelationship. That which makes us healthier, makes us more sane. And viceversa. Thehealthy characteristic of sanity is represented by the soundness of anindividual’s judgment or reasoning—a soundness of mind. Individuals who continuouslyemploy impaired judgment and reasoning would be operationally defined as being insane. In acollective culture, judgments and reasoning are predicated on the perceivedtruths of the basal paradigm. Consequently, if the paradigmatic beliefs of aculture were untrue or flawed, then the population that knowingly operatedunder those faulty beliefs would collectively express unsound judgments andreasoning. In such a case, an entire population can be technically judged to beinsane. Forexample, let’s say you hold an old belief that you are genetically destined tocontract breast or prostate cancer. In light of today’s new knowledge ofepigenetics and psychoneuroimmunology, the reasoning you used to reach thatconclusion would be deemed unsound—or totally insane. Fortunately, yourcondition would only be a temporary insanity because, with an awareness of howenvironment, personal perceptions, and lifestyle influence genetic activity andthe immune system, you would be afforded the opportunity to actively influenceand manage your health. Asillustrated in this example, cultural myth-perceptions can be personallydisempowering and can lead to the collective insanity that currently threatensour survival. As we’ve suggested, however, civilization’s insanity is only atemporary state, based on conditioning. As the population becomes aware ofnew-edge science’s revisions of the Four Myth-Perceptions of the Apocalypse,they will be offered an opportunity to use judgment and reasoning that are moreharmonious and supportive of our individual and collective survival. Quantumphysics reveals that despite our unconscious Newtonian belief in separation,which would have us believe one particle is a separate entity from anotherparticle, everything in the Universe is actually connected in ways we canhardly imagine. The things we think of as solid and tangible, like matter andtime, are nothing more than a set of relationships that only seem to becomereality when experienced through our perceptions. As wewill see shortly, the patterns of Nature and, indeed, the patterns of the Universerepeat themselves at different levels of complexity. This means that our healthdoesn’t end at our skin or, for you more metaphysical folks, at the outer edgeof the aura. Just as there are 50 trillion cells in our bodies, each of us is acell in the body of humanity. As above, so below. Healthy cells, healthyorgans, healthy organisms, healthy organizations, healthy biosphere. Now, thoseare consequences of primal sanity. Sanitycannot exist in an isolated pocket that conveniently denies the presence of therest of the world. True sanity must face and embrace the insanity of today’sworld and, in the process, offer to the temporarily insane a new awareness anda pathway to achieve harmony. As weencourage outbreaks of sanity everywhere, we add more power to a coherentmorphogenetic field that has already begun to change the shape of the world. Anew operating principle for a sane world might be this: Life is a cooperative journey among powerfulindividuals who can program themselves to create joy-filled lives. To takethe connection theme a step further, sanity is about integrating oppositesrather than taking refuge in one polarity or the other. Imagine living lifewith only half your wits about you! No wonder our institutions seem sohalf-witted. Sanity means full-wittedness, and that means bringing forth theholism hidden in the dueling dualities. For example, we may need to return to realold-time religion, a path that only makes sense when we evaluate the rootmeaning of the word religion. As British political writer David Edwardspoints out in his book, Burning All Illusions ,the word religion derives from the Latin religare ,which means “to bind together.” Ligare, incidentally, is also the root of ligament, the component within the body thatjoins muscle to bone. While traditionally this binding has been linked toobligation—and some would say bondage—Edwards chooses a more saneinterpretation. To him, religare meansto rejoin the individual with society, the world, and the cosmos. Thisfundamental meaning of religion has nothing to do with a personal god, theology,or dogma. It is, above all, a term that implies coherent connection, aconnection that doesn’t necessarily require a priestly intercessor. 2 Unfortunately,this deeper meaning of religion got buried under a pile of dogma-doo. Anyspiritual or philosophical ligaments that remained to connect humanity to theworld and cosmos were severed when scientific materialism supersededmonotheism. Insteadof extracting the loving wisdom from both earthly and theistic paths, we threwthe Baby Jesus out with the bath water. We invested our faith in the materialworld and allowed ourselves to believe that power could be a substitute for,and as good as or better than, love. But nowthat humankind has recognized that worship of matter is an unmistakablemistake, we are becoming aware that the god of money can neither providehappiness nor end suffering. Sanity,therefore, means that we graduate from a disempowering religion or, for thatmatter, a disempowering anything. Sanity means that we grow past the blindobedience of childhood and the blind rebelliousness of adolescence. Sanitymeans that we, as children of God put aside childish things and finally become adultsof God.
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