Cancer. The common attitude toward cancer is that it must be killed like a bacterium or a virus. Most people don't know that the human vulnerability to cancer is inseparable from the human capacity for somatic evolution. The genetic reproduction of cells by the somatic body is an imperfect process. The cells are almost never reproduced exactly. This imperfection is what makes cancer possible, but it is also what makes progressive evolution possible in the somatic body. The ability to kill all cancer cells and make cell reproduction perfect and immune to cancer would also guarantee the extinction of the human somatic body on this planet because in losing the imperfection in the cell reproduction the somatic would lose its ability to change and adapt to changing environments. We don't need to kill cancer. What we need is to learn how to consciously guide cell reproduction into proper evolutionary paths. Cancer is Nature saying to the somatic body, I can make you more than what you are, you can evolve. But the ordinary human response is, We don't need to evolve because we are finished normal humans who basically have nothing more to learn or to become. Cancer exists because of this resistance. If we had through our history up to this point developed the proper attitude toward our evolutionary destiny there would be no such thing as cancer. There is cancer because humans are afraid of reality and evolution. Consciousness is afraid of itself. The teleology of the universe is trying to make us evolve, but we resist it because we want to be 'normal' and finished realities. Do humans want to go on forever being walking sacks of excrement that have to consume other life-forms to preserve their short and mostly wasted lifetime?
We must begin the evolutionary movement toward becoming autotrophic beings as opposed to heterotrophic beings. If you don't know that word, autotrophic, please, remember it. It means subsisting on air and sunlight, for example, instead of on other living matter (heterotrophic). There are bacteria and plants that live in this way on the earth at this time. The depletion of resources in the biosphere will not permit humanity to continue to live indefinitely as it now lives as heterotrophic beings. We must evolve beyond where we presently are or perish in a much degraded biosphere.
Our Inescapable Task --
No Norm In The Engagement of Our Unfinished Reality
We must awaken from the psychic ensorcellment and see psychic death. This was touched on when the Buddha discovered that even the gods eventually die. But Buddhism has never understood what to do with this insight. And we must consciously engage and enter both somatic and psychic death to gain a new way of living and build a new kind of society in which somatic and psychic realities are equal and shaped to the task of consciousness expansion and the end of the fear of death.
The normal, having arisen out of the betrayal of the Feminine and the Masculine, is a betrayal of consciousness, it is consciousness betraying itself. We must create social vehicles in which people can face and work through their fears without having to become normal. Primitive societies have initiation rights, but we can create something of much wider scope that does not restrict itself to any particular mythology. Normality says there is no time for this because it is busy making a living. But I assure you that Death and denial-intoxication will bring this living down to utter hell on earth.
What is the relationship between DNA and consciousness and why do DNA and RNA produce heterotrophic creatures? Why does evolution produce life-forms that must take life from other life-forms in order to survive? And then finally perish anyway. The heterotrophic way of survival will eventually become a critical problem in the biosphere. But the heterotrophic mode is only a 'problem' because of consciousness or rather because of the teleological movement toward consciousness. So consciousness, produced by evolution, becomes the means by which evolution takes direction. But what is the relationship between consciousness and DNA? And why did the movement toward consciousness create the heterotrophic survival mode? This is a profoundly rich area of exploration. (Is the double helix some form of oppositive fusion?)
Death
There is no reincarnation because there is no incarnation to begin with. Consciousness is not incarnated. Consciousness is not in anything. There is no psychic separation from material reality with death then reunion with it later. In death consciousness retains its material roots. These roots have just changed form. To become disembodied is an illusion arising out of the fallacy of the superiority of psyche over matter. It is impossible for consciousness to separate from material reality and move exclusively into psychic reality. That is an illusion that mysticism has raised to the level of salvation status. In death you remain as tied to material reality as you are in life. And to actually progress in death, and not just enter the illusion of psychic salvation, you must consciously engage your material roots in that condition of death just as much as you must engage your psychic roots. You cannot escape your obligation and debt to the material universe and when you become conscious of the real nature of the psychic universe, your bias will dissolve before your eyes. We must consciously learn to take responsibility for our dead bodies, both somatic and psychic.
Freedom, Time, and the Unknown
Time is not the enemy or the prison of consciousness. Time is the principle of differentiation and is the foundation of the discernment of true freedom and true beauty. The destruction of Time is the destruction of consciousness. But this cannot happen because Time has no END or BEGINNING. It only has ends and beginnings.
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