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All of these denote devotion and are therefore common to all genuine religions. By intention, man symbolically sanctifies and commits both self and others, as well as places of worship. Because of intention, all styles of blessing and prayer calibrate over 500, and their collective effect can immeasurably impact the overall level of collective human consciousness. This is suggested by the observation that the last two major jumps in the overall level of human consciousness occurred successively after the Harmonic Convergence in the late 1980s, when the collective consciousness level went up from 190 to 205, and then again at the time of the Harmonic Concordance in November 2003, when it jumped from 205 to the current 207. At both times, spiritually committed people all over the world prayed simultaneously. The witnessing of the transition from 205 to 207 happened fortuitously at the end of a lecture in San Francisco (which was videotaped) when a spiritually committed group of four hundred people simultaneously prayed and sounded “Om,” followed by meditation on the chanting of the Lotus Sutra in Sanskrit. This occurred between the hours of 5:15 and 5:25 PM California time. In front of the audience at 5:15 PM, the consciousness level of mankind was calibrated at 205. It was then recalibrated at 5:30 PM, following the prayer, and the level had concurrently increased to the present level of 207.

Other Teachings, Schools, and Spiritual Traditions

Calibration levels do not indicate that one level is ‘better’ than another but only different, analogous to the selection of clubs when playing golf, which depends on whether one is going to ‘putt’, ‘chip’’ or ‘drive’. Therefore, efficacy is the result of intention and not just a technique in itself.

Many spiritual students have explored a variety of these approaches and report pragmatic and experiential benefit. The application of spiritual principles to many human dilemmas is widely acknowledged as efficacious, even when there is no original conscious motivation, such as the hopeless alcoholic who, after being ordered to attend AA meetings by the judge, miraculously recovers and becomes an inspiration to others by practicing the spiritual principles of ‘carrying the message to others’, i.e., sharing rather than proselytizing.

Spiritual integrity manifests as hope, faith, charity, and inspiring others by example. Integrous spiritual organizations that have an open door grow by attraction rather than by promotion, and they are devoid of dogma. Reliance on the power of the field is indicated by the group experience that people “get it by osmosis” instead of by intellectualization.

Conclusion

Confirmation of spiritual reality by means of consciousness calibration techniques is of great value in the advancement of human knowledge in that it represents a capacity to explore realms previously inaccessible, much less verifiable, due to the limitations of the intellect. While advanced spiritual awareness and reality are ‘home’ to the mystic, it still seems foreign to large populations and subgroups for which spirituality is less familiar than the more traditional religious or secular domains of mentation and Newtonian logic.

CHAPTER 18

Summary and Resolution

In ancient times, the sole source of higher truth was through the revelations of the great mystics, saints, and avatars, and thus, the spiritual core of religion was respected and revered. The followers of established religion did so out of faith and awe at the revelations of Divinity. Subsequently, however, the knowledge was appropriated and became primarily the property of the priestly class, which established the dictum of the orthodoxy of ecclesiastic doctrine.

Eventually, the higher truths, which are nonlinear and calibrate from 540 to 1,000, became surrounded by an aura of mystery and authoritarianism, which subsequently attracted great wealth that enabled the construction of the great temples and magnificent architecture of the great gothic cathedrals, mosques, and the magnificent Alhambra in Spain.

Reverence became codified and structured in its expressions, which were then authoritatively imposed as requirements. Thus arose coercion and fear, as well as divisiveness and militancy. Out of these qualities arose political power, with its rivalrous temptations of secular control of people, territory, and riches, plus the acquisition of impressive ranks and titles.

The faith of the followers became exploited, and aggrandizement fed the ego instead of the worship of God. Religion was corrupted by the ego inflation of zealous religiosity, which led to millennia of ceaseless wars that continue unabated to this very day. By virtue of these distortions, the holy books of the Sons of Abraham became the very justification for conflict, war, and genocide.

Despite the abuse and misappropriation of organized religion by usurpers within each faith, the essential truths were preserved and still available beneath their obfuscation and upstaging by pomp and ceremony. Thus, doctrine became the tool of oppression and fear rather than liberation by truth. Freedom was neither a value nor a practical alternative where the consequences for alleged heresy were grave indeed. Orthodoxy was therefore the only safe mode of life, and its perimeters were enforced by the fear of excommunication and the ominous consequences of sin readily enforced by the terrorization of the Inquisition and its persecution of mystics.

In the Far East, however, spiritual truth did not fall prey to the ego’s greed for secular power, nor did religion take on its dark image as it did in the Middle East and Western society. Taoism, Buddhism, and the ancient Hindu teachings of the great yogas (the pathways to God) brought about a more serene climate that was foreign to militant genocide or persecutions. Although sometimes imposed in a doctrine fashioned by some rulers, the teachings themselves were that of nonviolence and nonmateriality and were thus protected by their own purity.

While Western religions required and depended on submission to ecclesiastic authority, Eastern religions taught to look within for truth rather than without. Importantly, in a parallel development, the great philosophers of ancient Greece had discovered that the intellect itself could be the sought-for road to truth. Socrates, for example, was committed to truth with such sincerity that he followed the order to drink hemlock and accept death rather than violate the tenets of truth. In that instance, he was given the choice whereby he could save himself by compliance with the prevailing authorities, but to do so, he would be violating his own teachings. Thus, with great integrity, he chose to follow the dictum “To thine own self be true.”

The ancient philosophers then established the roads to truth via metaphysics, theology, epistemology, ontology, and the sciences of intellection based on the dialectics of reason and logic rather than blind faith. The Dialogues of Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates, by the power of their pristine intention, laid the groundwork and inspiration for the subsequent intellectual development of the Western world, which flowered forth as scientific discovery within the ensuing fruits of astronomy, physics, chemistry, advanced mathematics, and on to the present day of computer science, quantum mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, and M-theory.

The discoveries of Newton, Kepler, Haley, Copernicus, Galileo, and succeeding generations of scientists transformed the world and dazzled and simultaneously benefited mankind with their stunning brilliance. Understandably, mankind then revered the intellect, reason, and science as hope for earthly life, and in so doing, set religious belief aside. Religion thereby became compartmentalized and continued on in a more limited scope as personal ethics plus a belief system that applied to life after worldly death. Faith and belief were not denied but were held in abeyance and separated from the practical, everyday ‘real’ world of survival and business.

This division of orientation seemingly worked for many centuries, during which the calibratable level of consciousness of mankind was less than 200. But, as the predominant consciousness level of mankind overall passed from 190, where it had been for centuries, over the critical line to 205, and then to its current 207, the overall ambiance of society at first went through a subtle but then very visible major change of expression. Collective society now became far less tolerant of nonintegrity, egoistic greed, and the focus solely of gain. It became progressively more humanitarian, caring, and appreciative of spiritual values. A progressive concern emerged for fairness, balance, protection of the vulnerable, and appreciation for the quality of the environment, as well as for the dignity and rights of individuals. Rather than adherence to orthodox doctrine, the new call was for freedom and equality, such as had already been defined and specified in the Constitution of the United States, which calibrates at an impressive 710.

Paradoxically, the new emphasis and thrust to spiritual values was taken over by the egos of power-seeking proponents, which was exactly the same as the church had done in the past. They sought to usurp the basic truths to establish a new form of oppression and control over others. The tool was the distortion of valid intellection as rhetoric; that was the very downside of democracy via the mechanism of free speech foretold by Socrates in 350 B.C.

While science, logic, and intellectual integrity all calibrate in the mid- to high 400s, the contentious rhetoric is the consequence of fallacies that are intrinsic to calibration levels 135 to 190. These distortions of truth masquerade as humanistic idealism but, on the contrary, are merely the reemergence of narcissism in new clothes. The motive is secular totalitarianism by legislated control of others and the substitution of romanticized positionalities that appeal to ego mind and immaturity. The expressions of these energy fields or violations of truth are revealed by the pathognomonic diagnostic sign of the emergence of hatred, which is foreign to either intellectual or spiritual truth.

The energy fields below 200 are seen to be reactionary because they are contrary in direction to the overall progression of consciousness of the world itself at its current 207, much less America, which calibrates at 421. How this conflict resolves itself will influence the character of society until its core elements are identified and resolved.

The implications of a study of the calibrated levels of consciousness of the many aspects of the evolution of mankind in its expressions reveal significant and pragmatically useful information. While blind faith was and still is a main avenue to truth for the majority of mankind, in more recent times, ‘modern man’ has relegated and compartmentalized it. Subsequent to the age of faith, the intellect reawakened from ancient Greece, and the age of reason again prevailed and evolved as modern science, which in turn became the new repository of faith. Because of the high calibration of science in the mid-400s, its fruits have been a bonanza to modern man, who has thereby been relieved of major sources of suffering.

Modern man is now confronted with the dilemma of which way to turn for real truth, other than science and technology. Blind faith seems regressive, and returning to traditional religion reawakens old fears of theocratic oppression, sin, and guilt. As an alternative, philosophy and education, which once were erudite, have now been contaminated with excessive political positionalities and drowned in the sophistry of contentious relativistic postulations that calibrate below 200. Although they are popularized as supposed progress, they actually represent regress.