{"id":2326,"date":"2022-11-07T16:54:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T21:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2022-11-07T16:54:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T21:54:24","slug":"the-denouement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/the-denouement-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Denouement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Human society has reached a massive inflection point<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Definition of Denouement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The events following the climax of a drama or novel in which such a resolution or clarification takes place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. The outcome of a sequence of events; the end result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014\u2014 Wordnik<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiritual Principles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll Endings are Happy Endings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the theme of my former radio show called Interview with Spirit. On the show, which went from 2008 to 2014, I looked at current events from a spiritual perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meaning of the phrase, \u201cAll Endings are Happy Endings,\u201d is simple. All life, all consciousness, comes from the Creative Source (God, if you prefer), the benevolent, non-physical source of all consciousness in the universe. No matter how bad your life is in the physical universe, no matter how evil you have been in your physical incarnation, or how good, the divine essence that makes you, you, returns to the Source of All.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All endings, therefore, are happy endings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another saying I had on the show was, \u201cWhat happens on earth stays on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This just means that the evil, or good, you do on earth is stored in your personal \u201csoul space\u201d associated with the planet, lifetime after lifetime. When your body dies you leave all that shit in your personal karmic space and ascend, unencumbered, back to the Creative Source. When you are ready for another lifetime, you pick up all of the crap that happened to you and begin again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every time you come in, you come in completely clean. Every time you leave, you leave completely clean. It\u2019s like playing a board game. You take your piece out of the box and play with it, then you take it off the board and put it back after the game is over. In this analogy, the player is the soul and the board piece is the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as each board game is unique, each physical lifetime is unique, and will never occur again in the history of the universe. But consciousness (self-awareness) continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reincarnation is the process of soul evolution in the physical universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at life from the lens of these two spiritual concepts simplifies living. No matter how bad life is, there is relief at the end. No matter how evil you are you can start over afresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Confusion about life comes about when people muck around with human belief systems. \u201cWhen you die you\u2019re dead,\u201d for example (\u201cYou only live once\u201d), creates a franticness about life. You have to be very, very careful. If something happens to that body of yours, your consciousness is snuffed out forever. You gotta look out for number one and not let others get over on you, \u201cbecause life is too short.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what if life is a continuation of consciousness interrupted by birth and death? Then, death is just an interruption in physical consciousness, and birth is an interruption in soul consciousness. But you are still you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living life without spiritual understanding stifles cooperation (\u201cWhy should I help the other guy? Screw him\u201d), leads to a consciousness of scarcity (\u201cThere\u2019s only so much to go around\u201d), and creates degraded ideas about human nature (\u201cWe\u2019re only slightly above the animals,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a dog-eat-dog world out there,\u201d etc.). These attitudes about humanity lead to societal imbalance, poverty and injustice, and constant conflict and war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The source of human misery, at its core, is a lack of spiritual understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life is set up to be benevolent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are two important corollaries to the two principles above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Consciousness is eternal and does not depend on physical systems. A more limited consciousness results when the soul associates with a physical body, which limits perception and awareness to the five human senses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Consciousness is inherently benign and benevolent, because all self-awareness is associated with the Creative Source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human history on this planet has been, essentially, the record of violations of these principles, due to limited understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last post we saw how the human body itself is based on musical and mathematical harmonies. The design of our world, including animals, plants, and insects, is based on harmony, not conflict. The diverse ecosystems on this planet cocoon and nurture life. Their design is benevolent and life-supporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so \u2013 all life on earth is set up for harmony and cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now: throw in a wild card called Free Will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free Will means just that: the ability to turn away from the harmonious setup life gives us and do whatever we want. Free will creates tension that spurs new ideas and provides the engine for growth and evolution to higher (or lower) states. Because of this tension, nothing ever stays the same: systems are either contracting or growing, evolving or falling apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life is a delicate balance between a harmonious baseline and the ability to choose differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tensegrity <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t want to get too complicated here, but we can model the tension between a benevolent setup and free will by borrowing some concepts from the genius of Buckminster Fuller. Bucky modeled the tension of life using what he called tensegrit<\/em>y structures. Tensegrity<\/em> is a combination of the words \u201ctension\u201d and \u201cintegrity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(If you are interested in this concept in greater detail, go to the article The Geometry of Harmony<\/a> on my website, which explains how tension creates energy and gives living systems a dynamic quality.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very briefly, a static system (once which can\u2019t evolve) might look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All of the blue struts are rigidly connected to the little white balls. This structure is very fragile because if you knock it even a little, the struts come out, or break, and the whole thing collapses. You could glue or snap in the struts rigidly to the balls to make the connections stronger, but if you play around with it you\u2019ll see that it will fall apart under stress. This kind of structure can be beautiful, but it cannot adapt. It is fixed in position, and cannot change. It cannot change because the individual pieces of which it is composed have no freedom to operate. They are constrained to come together in only one way. There is no dynamic tension here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s compare this to one of Bucky\u2019s tensegrity structures:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here, each strut has a notch in it at the end of it and is covered with a red tip. Each of the struts is connected to the others with a red tension wire that fits into the notch and is slightly shorter than the strut, separating each strut and creating tension within the structure. What happens when you hit this thing? The tension wires flex and the struts find balance because they aren\u2019t rigidly connected. You can throw it across the room, or at a wall, and it will remain intact. None of the struts ever touch each other. They are independently islanded so that if forces act upon any part of the structure, the whole thing immediately finds balance. When a structure is built in this way, it can withstand tremendous forces upon it. If you push on it or strike it there will be an immediate, uniform, and symmetrical response around the entire structure. It is dynamic and can flex inwardly and outwardly, always finding equilibrium within itself. In other words, it can easily adapt to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, tension isn\u2019t a bad thing if it is accompanied by integrity! Tension gives life a built-in energy source that comes from within. To see this, build or buy one of these tensegrity models. If you work with tensegrity you can see that the structure internally generates all of the forces upon it and within it. Tensegrity generates its own energy and dynamically balances it. It does not require energy from the outside. It is self-contained, independently energy generating, and self-balancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like life itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So \u2013 Life has tension, integrity, and flexibility built-in to it. If it didn\u2019t, it would quickly collapse. The same goes for political systems and societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tyrannical, dictatorial political systems constrain thought, speech, and action. A \u201cone size fits all\u201d society crushes diversity of opinion and new ideas under the guise of \u201chate speech,\u201d or \u201cmisinformation,\u201d or whatever the dictator doesn\u2019t like. Such a system is like the first structure above. The more rigid and dictatorial the system is, the more certain that it will eventually collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Rigid, inflexible systems contain the seeds of their own destruction because they cannot adapt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Denouement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

  If all endings are happy endings, why is there so much misery in the world? Perhaps it\u2019s because humanity has adopted distorted and unworkable ideas about itself. We study the human body and fail to realize that its basic structure is designed around harmony. We design drugs to fight disease instead of promoting health and supporting the body\u2019s underlying cooperative and harmonious nature. We design political systems based on mindless, ruthless competition. We denigrate the divine, creative impulses that generate new ideas and insist on a hive mind approach that crushes merit and ability. We do not let the human spirit soar!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Folks, the human race is rapidly approaching a denouement. We have struggled with a false conception of the human being for over 6,000 years, but we are now coming to a massive inflection point in human affairs. Either we recognize basic spiritual (and design) principles, and adopt a true understanding of who we are, or human society will go over a cliff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not about designing new political and economic systems. We are far beyond that now, for 6,000 years of human history has conclusively demonstrated that it is impossible to solve a problem with the same consciousness that created the problem. Therefore, we must abandon our failed conceptions and distorted ideas about human nature, and embrace the fundamental, core design principles that describe our divine, inherent, harmonious nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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