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Monday, May 3, 2010

The Development of the Socially Conscious


Our human species assumes we know everything when we are born.  This statement is a general assumption of course, because not everyone assumes this.  However, have you ever heard a mother speak to her toddler as though she thinks the toddler understands precisely what she is saying and as yet the toddler has not even learned how to say mother or father or its own name.  Yet the mother will insist, "I told you not to do that.  Why don't you ever listen.  Don't you understand...etc."  If you are privileged to stand and observe this type of behavior occuring between mother and toddler, you will see the toddler roll up his tiny hands and stuff them into its eye sockets and the tear will roll.  Why?  Because, the toddler feels the sound of the voice and feels the anger from its mother, but very possibly does not understand...the toddler was just born into the world perhaps 18 months prior, so how could it know?  but we of the human species assume the toddler knows everything!  


We get dumped into this world of ours with certain sensory devices, seeing, hearing, making sounds, feeling, tasting and so on and from those  senses we begin to build our world.  We begin to construct from our environment the information we need to know to survive in it.  The greater degree of environmental intelligence we surround ourselves with or were blessed with upon birth, the better our ability to accumulate and absorb our encumbering world.  We interact with where we are at, no matter where or what it may be;  this movable and creative ability can be a continual inspiration to all humans


The best thing about humans is that we are LEARNERS.  And as such we continually put together and process information in order to create more liveable circumstances for ourselves and the lives of other people.  We may be bound by certain rules and regulations, however those same rules and regulations give us the opportunities to continue developing human social consciousness.  This constant wave of human development is an elemental factor in electronic wave rolling that moves through sky, water and earth in a similar never ceasing motion.  We humans are part of this process and absorb and feel this environmental wave, although we are contained and held in place by other physical laws of our known universe.


Many people I have met in Yosemite National Park refer to it as Yosemite University because of the opportunity for humans to absorb, assimilate and interact with our basic elemental creations.  Some of these would include: the forests, the rocks, the water,  the creatures that call Yosemite home, and the humans that have invited themselves into Yosemite to share in its natural environmental processes.  The Yosemite Park itself is a teacher, and one that carries the natural credentials of the universe.  If you are a student, open to the call of the wild and the way in which natural processes are created, then you will discover the endless phenomena of 360 degrees of educational process.  However you may have to step outside of your car to do this, or exit your tent and breathe the crisp air, or take a hike where 7-11 does not exist, you may have to stretch your limbs in unimaginable ways in order to climb up granite walls, you may have to leave no trace that you were ever here.


As we press forward with the idea of SHARED living environments we are taught by our experiences that we are not alone in this universe and that we must accommodate living entities that exist on trillions of levels, from small floating sightless ocean creatures in the depths of the sea, to high circling eagles air borne above the clouds where no man can fly because man does not have wings, and with each other human that we see or do not see. "For those things we have done and for those things we have failed to do."  In order to continue life we are indeed burdened by brotherhood, however we should develop good social consciousness and nonetheless not lend ourselves to exploitation, and yet not exploit our environment and so we see our mathematical dilemma... it may be that we press on, living close to the edge, in order to be born again, and yet again, so that we finally understand that each birth is a new realization and the beginning of yet another wave of awakening.



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