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21 rapt in awe At the core of modern belief systems, which became preeminent from the Enlightenment 4 onward, is the separation of mind and spirit from matter. This separation and fragmentation, like all things, has both positive and negative aspects. The positive aspects of modernity 5 – this world we are embedded in – have brought us a more universal comfort in life through technology and principles of social equality. The ability to manipulate material substance promoted the widespread of individual free will. It let ordinary people know that they had power and influence by choice on their lives, that it was not just fated by mystical forces. This ushered in the cult of the individual that is so prevalent in the modern era. Many of our engrained cultural presumptions, parti-‐ cularly in the developed world, stem from the wonderful recog-‐ nition that we as individuals can stack the building blocks of our lives. Modernity fueled the shifts to democratic governance based on the inalienable rights of the individual. The separation of spirit from matter made industrialism viable as cause and effect were harnessed into steam engines and mechanistic contraptions to do our work. Modernity has made us out to be God – active agents of freewill. In Neitszche’s words, God is dead, in the traditional sense, in our hearts. Spirit and matter can be separated in a host of perspectives, but that then reduces the inherent complexity of our reality. It turns out that it really is not that simple, that mind and spirit and matter are integrally entwined, in all space and all time. The negative side of this modern mindset is a profound disassociation between mind and matter, the subjective and objec-‐ tive aspects of self, and all things. This severance between spirit and body, the ethereal and the real, is projected onto all aspects 4 The Enlightenment is a period in Western thought beginning in the 17 th century and becoming prevalent in the 18 th century centered upon reason, individual liberties, and the scientific method. 5 Modernity refers to the pervasive worldview associated with Industrialism and post- Enlightenment scientific approach
apt in awe of our current reality. Such fragmentary worldviews propagate conflict between individuals and groups, ecological imbalance and destruction, and threatens our very survival. Despite the vast amount of positive attributes that have arisen from the modernist mindset, the prevalent attachment to fundamental beliefs, even in their partiality, hinders our collective progress. Fortunately new emergent structures of thought are available to us. There is a great deal of theory and research regarding the evolving processes of consciousness from modern-‐ ity, to postmodernism, to integral outlooks. The point here is that it is an evolving process. Consciousness continues to evolve into states of greater complexity and sophistication. The perennial challenge of being human in each given instant is to release our selves from these preconceived beliefs that inhibit the ever-‐ evolving flow of consciousness. The evolution of consciousness is expressed through us by means of our personal creativity. The underlying premise here is that we are mere conduits of creative processes, as independent nodes of consciousness and the collectives that we form. There is an extensive body of scientific evidence and an ancient insight which tell us that the universe acts through us as apparently independent nodes of a collective medium. Just as a wave passes through water, the individual particles of water are moved by the wave, but do not move along with it. Although we appear to be separate and independent agents, contained within our skin, there is an entangled fabric of fundamental energy that connects us all. This very idea undermines many common beliefs about the nature of consciousness and material existence, and will likely conjure both confusion and resistance. Ingrained habits hold strong. I invite you to trust the process here, and allow understanding to unfold. The evolution of consciousness acts through you. Rapt in awe is a book about this broader concept of evolving consciousness, and chances are, if you are reading this, 22
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