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Teachers from the East speak of a consciousness that includes
within itself all other forms of consciousness.
Swami Rama names it "superconsciousness" and Sri Aurobindo has called
this "supramental
consciousness".
The ancient traditions of India remind us
consciousness is self-existent - independent of everything in
existence.
Consciousness
does not arise out of or depend on anything outside of itself such as time
or reality.
Consciousness,
always existing, is inherently complete.
This Upanishad describes
four states of consciousness: waking, dreaming, sleep, and
Turiya.
Mandukya Upanishad refers to
integrated
consciousness as "Turiya."
Waking consciousness is
rational
consciousness.
Dreaming includes
mythical and
magical
consciousness.
Waking
REM sleep is
considered to be a state of oneness analogous to
archaic
consciousness.
Mandukya Upanishad states:
"In sleep experience merges into a
unity of undifferentiated consciousness."
Turiya is a state of
consciousness is which the other three states are
recognized spontaneously in an epiphany.
Instantaneous conscious
apperception of culturally
induced subconscious framing of reality blazes forth.
"He who
is enveloped in this Satisfaction is
in need of nothing
whatsoever to satisfy him.
I had the full value
of everything that could possibly be desired." - Franklin Merrill
Wolff
"Vision requires far more than
a functioning organ
without
an inner light,
without a
formative visual
imagination,
we are blind
!
Vision requires
an inner light
compliments
the familiar outer
light
transforming
raw sensation
into
meaningful
perception
The light of
the mind must flow into and
marry the light of nature to bring
forth reality."
Arthur
Zajonc
value is defined as:
to hold
dear
a culturally
accepted ideal
worth in
usefulness or importance to
the possessor
"A
true revolution of
values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of
our past and present policies.
We are called to play
the good Samaritan on life's
roadside; but that will be only an initial act.
We must come to see
the whole road must be transformed so that men and
women will not be constantly
robbed as they
journey on life's highway.
Compassion
is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not
superficial.
It
comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring
contrast.
With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and
see individual
capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia,
Africa and South
America, only to take the profits
out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say:
"This is not just."
It will look at
our alliance with the landed gentry
of Latin America and say: "This is not just."
The Western arrogance,
everything to teach, and nothing to learn.
A true revolution of values will
lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences
is not just."
Burning human beings with
napalm, filling homes with
orphans and widows,
injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane,
sending men home from
dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and
psychologically
deranged, cannot be reconciled.
A nation that continues year after
year to spend more money on military
endeavors than on
programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
America,
the richest nation on Earth,
can lead a revolution of values.
Only
a tragic death wish
prevents America from reordering priorities, so that
the pursuit of peace will
take precedence over the pursuit of
war.
There is nothing to
keep us from molding a
recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into
a brotherhood.
A
genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties
must become ecumenical rather than sectional.
Every nation must now
develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to
preserve the best in individual
societies. " - Martin Luther
King
"In fact, it is a farce to call any being
virtuous whose virtues
do not result from the exercise of its own reason." - Mary Wollstonecraft
"The perfume of
flowers goes not against the
wind, not even the perfume of sandalwood, of rose-bay, or of jasmine; but the
perfume of virtue travels against the wind and reaches unto the ends of the
world." - Dhammapada
"Every performance by which man, contrary to the
impulse of nature, should endeavour the benefit of others, or the conquest of
his own passions, out of a rational ambition of being good."
- Bernard
Mandeville's definition of virtue
virtue
is:
courage
patience
purity of soul
integrity of
character
morality in
sexual relations
doing what is good and
escaping what is evil
virtue is not patience with your jailer ! 
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