The moral illusion

• 25 September, 2021
• consciousness
• cosmology
• mindfulness

Let me put you in the picture so you can calm down, maybe go grab yourself a coffee or cup of tea - or even grab a beer from the fridge. Go grab some nuts, no on second thoughts, knowing how some of you men will take things literally and get the wrong end of the stick accidentally on purpose, let's agree on cake. Can't misinterpret a slice of cake can we now?

If there's anything - anything at all - that you really need to understand about morality and moral reasoning, then it's the simple fact that it's not possible to take a moral stance or position without getting embroiled in separateness and building up karma.

Sorry (well actually I'm not, just being a bit political here).

It's not possible. Not even close.

You see how can you know that you are right without making the assumption that you are not wrong? On what basis are you making that assumption?

On the conscious perception of an environmental situation or choice? An abstract situation or set of circumstances? Okay so how you do actually know you are right, and not wrong? Where is the fundamental truth or knowledge behind your moral reasoning? I'm not referring to an assumption here, or a feeling, or a whim, or a guess, but on actual truth, knowledge. Something that's real, concrete.

Let's spend a bit of time looking at the reality behind choices and decisions, okay?

Your environmental reality

The very first thing you're up against when making any kind of choice or decision in life is your environmental reality. What I'm referring to here is the mystical transaction, i.e. the transaction between you and your natural and social environment.

You can only deal with this environmental reality in terms of your Principle, i.e. your individual conscious perspective, which in turn is your level of conscious awareness and also, more specifically, the narrow focus of conscious attention (your Ego). Your Ego is only the most immediate and basic level of consciousness. It's what you perceive in the here and now. It's what you are choosing to consciously focus your attention on.

Contrast this with your environmental reality, which is coming at you constantly in a vast multi-dimensional continuum of sensation and experience - the felt sense of immediate experience. Your environmental reality can be defined quite simply as everything that you don't perceive as you happening everywhere all the time constantly. There's no comparison between your Ego and your environmental reality. This is like comparing the toenail on your little toe with the entire solar system. The difference in scale and dimension is really that vast, and I'm being conservative here.

This is also just one half of your mystical transaction. There's also the other half.

"A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys
One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar
His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane
Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave
So Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave
Oh!
Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in the land called Honah Lee..."
Peter, Paul and Mary, "Puff the Magic Dragon"

Your subconscious

Then there's the other half of your mystical transaction, the conscious half, made up mainly of your subconscious. Think of your subconscious as a cosmic record of your various life cycles stretching back eternally into the past and the source of your karma and karmic debt to your environment.

Your karmic debt to your environment? What's that?

Oh did you think all that air you've been breathing, the fresh clean water you've been drinking and the solar heat you've been enjoying all came for free? Is this another one of your assumptions? Understand that you exist in a universe that's predicated entirely on balance, harmony and equilibrium. Nothing comes for free in this universe. The experience of life comes with a cost and when the time comes for you to pay then Mother Nature will extract that cost as and when it's required. The terms of payment are very clear, you pay for your physical experiences of life with your physical body. When your time's up, it's up and you die and have to start all over again with a completely new life cycle as someone else.

But anyway..

The subconscious makes up around 95% of your brain's total activity. The human brain is one of the most complex anatomical structures known to Mankind, and a big reason why we are so royally fucked right now when it comes to our environmental, social and economic issues is that we've only just started to try and figure out who we are as a species. The science of neurology is arguably the newest of all sciences, a century or so old, but despite the fact that it's making huge strides in the past 50 or so years and has figured out that consciousness is existence neurologists are willing to admit that they're dealing with a fractal and this is why much of what is medical science is still stuck in the area of Newtonian mechanics. Doctors who specialize still specialize in bits of you treating your body more like a car or an engine rather than a complete organism.

The problem when it comes to making choices and decisions is that you have to take everything into consideration when making the choice. Taking everything into consideration requires thinking. Thinking is a physical activity involving both Ego and the creating of new memory. The actual process of thinking is a heavily fragmented physical process which is either mechanical, organic, chemical, and it's always physical.

This is where you can easily run into problems, some of which you can be completely unaware of.

You see when you start thinking - about anything - you stop perceiving because instead of relying on your sensory nervous system to record consciousness into memory directly, you start relying on past experiences and recycling past consciousness through your imagination. Sure, sometimes you can get away with this, if you're making a habitual or frequent choice or you're working from a pattern or a vision of a pattern. But not all choices are like that, are they?

So not only immediately have you switched from perception of the present moment into the past - because thinking always shifts your conscious perception into the past - you're also in the situation where your Ego (the narrow focus of conscious attention) can easily get swallowed up, or at least influenced by your larger subconscious (the major part of your Principle). This can easily lead to a sensation which comes out of implicit memory - because you don't remember the vast majority of choices and decisions you've made in life from your recall memory - where the source of consciousness is your subconscious, not your focus of conscious attention.

This is generally the source of your stupidity. At the time you make the choice, it all makes perfect sense. But then when the consequences of the choice you've made start to manifest, and things take a definite unexpected turn, this is where you end up thinking "Oh shit! What the hell was I thinking?"

That is, unless you're basing your decision making on some ideology, be it religious or political, and following a moral compass. You can miss a lot of stupidity that way, simply because you're basing your conscious perception of your environment around a human concept, an ideology, a belief system. You can't see your stupidity because you're living in Cloud Cuckoo Land, having abdicated responsibility for all your choices and decision making to some perceived higher, external authority.

A clear example, in a single word - Brexit.

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"From Bombay to Bangalore
All the Hindus know the score
If you wanna live some more
Hare, hare, hare

If you do not take the vow
You can eat the sacred cow
But you'll get karma anyhow
Hare, hare, hare

Bow down mister
Hare rama, hare krishna
Bow down mister
We say radha syam..."

Boy George, "Bow Down Mister"

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The existence of morality

I'm quoting a Boy George song above to make a point. Generally when you get Western individualism and moral reasoning messing about with an eastern religion or philosophy the consequences tend to be ugly. Hinduism is vast and seemingly infinite. This is not just a religion. It's a complete way of life which if you're not actually Indian takes decades to learn. It's not something you can pick up on a two week holiday in Mumbai or in Goa.

This is a good example of the point of this post - there is no connection whatsoever between the way the universe works (Natural Law) and morality.

In fact I'd even go as far to say that all morality and moral reasoning is based on the game of chess. You have two sides, black and white, and you're usually playing one side against the other. You have various strategies, openings, closings, endgames, bridge moves, and transactions, and the whole point of morality and moral reasoning is the exact same as in a game of chess - that point being checkmate.

This means that all morality and moral reasoning is based on human thinking and human concepts. Human imagination. Rulership. External authority. It's all rooted in the false belief in separateness. Morality is the ultimate Western Ego trip. Societal games of oneupmanship. An excuse system for bigotry, cruelty, inhumanity, and exploitation.

It's the default get out clause for societal and political failure, and nothing more than this.

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"The water shines
A pebble skips across the face
A dozen times
Then disappears, not a trace
Left behind
The thrower turns
And walks away
A change of mind
Another start
A brand new day
You know I'll change
If change is what you require
Your every wish
Your every dream, hope desire
Here comes the mirror man
Says he's a people fan
Here comes the mirror man..."
The Human League, "The Mirror Man"

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From duality to non-duality

So let's compare the convoluted and complicated system of morality, which being entirely subjective - because terms like good, right, wrong, legal, moral, evil, and so on are completely subjective and arbitrary - with the utter simplicity of Natural Law and karma resolution. There's just one very simple universal principle:

Make the connection which takes you from a duality to a non-duality.

That's it. There is really nothing more that you need to know or understand about karma and karma resolution. Whenever you're facing a Two in life, a duality or a polarity, i.e. a choice, all you need to do is to sense or feel the connection or look for the pattern which connects you to your immediate environment and make whatever choice or decision which is going to result in a One, and this means following the principle of unity.

This is the only principle you need to follow, even if it takes you into a Zero, simply because you're following the principle of Natural Law, you're accessing the akashic power in the universe and allowing the consciousness and space out there in your environment to flow through your mind.

For sure you might make a mistake, you might still get it wrong or misunderstand, but you're following the exact same principle on which the entirety of biological evolution and the universe itself is based. This is how the universe works. This is how this planet works. This is how nature works. It's all based on the giving up of control to the environment and other. To the constant breaking down and delegation of authority. To the constant repetition of successful patterns and energy cycles along a fractal across an infinite range of scales and different dimensions, from a single biological cell and an atom to a whole galaxy - it's all energy cycles and waves whizzing round a nucleus constantly, each cycle or wave having a crest and a trough, and two points of equilbrium.

Surely you've heard of the statement 'the truth will set you free', right? Why would you ever need or want to be the created and follow external authority when you yourself can much more easily be the Creator?

Exactly who's life are you living? Your life, or someone else's life? Think about it.

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"Nobody can tell you there's only one song worth singing
They may try and sell you
'Cos it hangs them up to see someone like you
But you've got to make your own kind of music
Sing your own special song
Make your own kind of music
Even if nobody else sings along...."

'Mama' Cass Elliot, "Make your own kind of music"