Jesus Spiritual Diagnosis of Our Semiconscious Reality?

 

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. ― Jesus of Nazareth

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. ― Albert Einstein

This post continues the theme of: Jesus Unpalatable Truth About Our Human Behavior? And takes up the self-knowledge and self awareness challenge in both Albert Einstein and Jesus of Nazareth's comments. By exploring the simple truth of humanity's semiconscious reality, by confessing the simple truth that I cannot explain "how" I think, talk, & walk, as an adult human being. How about you? Like me, can you consciously explain "what it is" you are doing while thinking, talking, & walking? Yet, just like me, are you unaware of the subconsciously orchestrated reality of this quintessentially human behavior? 

While in the context of Jesus' "you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free," and Albert Einstein's “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” If we talked face to face, would we agree that our human form of consciousness, involves the conscious & subconscious nature of experience? And if we admitted to each other that we simply cannot explain the subconscious nature of "how" we perform the experience of being human? Would this simple truth lead us to a self-experienced understanding of Jesus' spiritual diagnosis of our semiconscious reality? As the oldest truth about our reality, known to humanity?

As explored in the post: The Felt & Unfelt Reality of Our Human Existence? And would this simple and oldest truth about our human reality, inspire you to reimagine the historical purpose & intention of the Jesus story?  And why the natural philosophers of an Axial-age period in human history, developed their parables of awakening? And in the context of both Einstein & Jesus comments about the truth of our human understanding of our own reality. I ask the Google AI this question: "did the natural philosophers of an Axial-age period in human history, develop parables of awakening?" And I insert the intro to the AI response & footnote 1 for your intellect's consideration and your body-wise contemplation.

"Yes, the natural philosophers and spiritual thinkers of the Axial Age (roughly 8th to 3rd centuries BCE) developed profound parables and allegories of awakening. During this period of immense intellectual and cognitive shifts, thinkers across Eurasia began moving away from relying strictly on myths, ritual sacrifices, and localized tribal gods. Instead, they focused on individual consciousness, self-transcendence, and personal awakening." Please see the full footnote. 

A Second Coming of Mind: Awakening?

Jesus Unpalatable Truth About Our Human Behavior?

 

Therefore speak I to them in parables, because seeing, they see not, 

and hearing, they hear not, neither do they understand, (Matthew 13:13).

This post continues the theme of: The Felt & Unfelt Reality of Our Human Existence? By suggesting that the story of Jesus known today, is based on a far older understanding of the maturity challenge of our human species. As the clearly evident challenge to become a fully mature sentient species, that we see in the world today. And clearly evident in Jesus' concise statement about why he taught parables. Awakening parables about the unpalatable truth of our human behavior? As explored in the post: Balanced Consciousness & Ancient Prophecy Words?

About the simple truth fact that all our consensus reality words, are not the reality of the world. And how the subconsciously orchestrated and functionally automatic nature of our adult behaviors collude with the recursive nature of language. To make us feel like we are more conscious of the nature of reality, than we actually are. Which this post argues is the oldest most unpalatable truth known to our species, and is paradoxically denied by the subconscious orchestration of our adult behavior.

Yet proven by the undeniable fact that no human being can explain the unseen & largely unfelt reality of how we think, talk, & walk, as a sentient species. As the subconsciously orchestrated nature of our behavior, sees us unwittingly conflate the reality of communication, with reality comprehension. Which can be deconstructed, to use a term popular in spiritual but not religious circles, of online communications and website manifestations. To differentiate our intellectual form of reality comprehension from our embodied form of reality comprehension.

The Felt & Unfelt Reality of Our Human Existence?

This blog post is another in my ongoing series about the personal and entirely private experience, the English language uses to word consciousness to describe. And continues my exploration of how human languages simultaneously describe & disguise the true nature of our own reality and the reality of the world, we sighted humans see. With this DeepAI generated image, arguably representing a picture worth a thousand words, about the felt and unfelt reality of our existence in time. As I continue the theme of the previous post titled: Balanced Consciousness & Ancient Prophecy Words?

I mean, why did the large language model AI chose to frame the word prompt; "the felt & unfelt reality of existence," in this particular way? Why the jet-black image of a human being, presumably standing upon a hilltop & facing the sun? Why does a visual awareness of the sun, appear to be obscured by clouds? Is this image metaphorical or allegorical, of our human form of consciousness & the reality of our existence in time? 

And in the context of the felt & unfelt nature of reality, does this image represent our conscious unawareness of our own reality & the earth-turning reality of our existence in time? Is it the reality of the earth's constant rotation in the darkness of space, that creates our visual experience of the sun appearing above a horizon, as depicted in this image. And are we capable of either feeling what's happening in the cosmic reality of space, or in the biological reality of our brain's capacity to manifest this visual experience? 

Balanced Consciousness & Ancient Prophecy Words?

 

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world

for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come, (Matthew 24:14).

As we watch the news of war in the middle east, and contemplate unthinkable fears of a third world war ending to civilization as we know it. Which has many religiously minded people questioning whether current events are clear signs of an end times prophecy. Is the good news prophecy above, about a supernatural being and his supernatural father, or the natural awakening experience of ordinary people?

Is there a clear perceptual confusion about the original meaning of words like apocalypse, and our human perceptions of reality? And are our human systems of belief, still ludicrously partisan and dictated by the arbitrary nature of language, and the existential lottery of our biological conception? 

As a speaking species, are we confused by the great gift & curse, of our adaptive behavioral capacity for language? And still living in denial about the way the recursive nature of language makes us feel like we are more conscious of reality, than we actually are? Still fearing exposure of our undeniable self-ignorance, and the simple truth that no human being can explain "how" we think, talk, & walk? 

Sure, we can articulate "what" we are doing, when performing these quintessential human behaviors. But is the "how" of human behavior still an unasked question, generally speaking? No matter how well educated we are, or research field we work in? And is the perceptual problem inherent in language actually compounded and maintained by our systems of education?

The Era of Natural Philosophy & End Times Prophecy?

 

This personal blog post continues the theme of the previous post: Creation, God, Jesus, & Resurrected Truth? And the post that effectively begins a new series of posts, since my initiatory series on perceptual wisdom & realized being, began back in 2019. With these new posts explaining all that I've learned about perceptual wisdom and realized being since then. 

Especially the undeniable truth that language makes us human beings feel like we are more conscious of reality than we truthfully are. And why this post is about the historical era of natural philosophy, and how it led to an end times prophecy that is bound to come true. Please consider:

The era of natural philosophy spanned from ancient Greek antiquity in the 6th century BCE through the 19th century, serving as the historical precursor to modern empirical science. It covered the study of the physical universe before splitting into specialized modern disciplines like physics, chemistry, and biology.

With this new series of posts taking on the existential challenge of the final post in the previous series: Humanity's Reification Redemption Challenge back in September 2022. When I wrote about my fears for generation Alpha and the world they will inherit, as an escalating mess created by my baby boomer (post world war II) generation. 

Especially all that hope for the world to come during the decade of the 1960s, cultural revolution. Like the lyrics of the Beatles classic "All You Need Is Love" Which many people of my generation thought was a fitting tribute to the pro-love anti-ignorance natural philosopher, Jesus of Nazareth. As we puzzled over the existential meaning of the verse lines:

Nothing you can make that can't be made
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time
It's easy

With a friend of mine making the interesting observation that the verse lines of popular songs have something in common with verse lines in the Bible. Mind you, she did come from a devout Catholic family, and regularly confessed her sin of preferring rock guitarists and rock concerts to Catholic Confessions. "Its dead boring," she used to say, with typically ironic & sarcastic Mancunian humor.

Creation, God, Jesus, & Resurrected Truth?

 

This post follows the theme of: Are Words Reality? And is Humanity Truly Awake? In exploring the nature of perception, for biologically conceived human beings, and our relationship with reality. In the historical context of the story of Jesus of Nazareth, and what the story "cryptically" conveys about Creation, God, & Reality. As I ask you to consider whether the world famous cross of crucifixion, is actually a symbol of a balanced human consciousness? A needed balance, cryptically conveyed in one of Jesus' famous sayings: "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make free?" 

If we contemplate the possibility that this famous story, is subconsciously motivated by the subconsciously motivated beings, that we all are? That the story is most likely about our species oldest and most universal fear, the darkness of night? And the truth of the darkness within us all, as our conscious unawareness of our own reality, and the earth-turning reality of our existence in time? That the whole Christian Bible, is about the truth of the darkness within us? And our species perennial need to balance our human experience of consciousness?

Are Words Reality? And is Humanity Truly Awake?

 

Is this one of those images that speaks a thousand words, so to speak? About a behaviorally subconscious phenomenon, intellectually thought of as reification and more viscerally understood as our mind's habit of thingification? And put more simply, is it about an age-old problem with humanity's waking dream of a consensus reality? I mean why did the DeepAI.com algorithm create this image of objects atop a human head? In response to the prompt, "transcending confusion & the greater awakening?" As this blog-post asks the questions; "are words reality? & is humanity truly awake?" In an attempt to convey how language makes us humans feel like we are more conscious of reality, than we truthfully are.

With the question "are words reality" related to our unwitting habit of judging our own reality and the reality of the world around us. And the question "is humanity truly awake" is related to the functionally automatic nature of our adult behaviors. Like how learning to ride a bike becomes functionally automatic with practice, just like learning to drive a car did. In the same way learning to think, speak & write words became functionally automatic when we were children. 

The Christ-Mind Awareness of a Simple Truth?

 

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

As you can see by the date of this blog post, it's been a while since I wrote the post: Humanity's Reification Redemption Challenge As I continue my efforts to understand the historical nature of the perceptual wisdom of realized being, and the personal meaning of the word Christ. How its "anointed one" meaning applies to the biologically anointed mind of the biologically conceived creatures, named human. And our species-specific preference for unwittingly valuing the nature of language above and beyond the nature of reality. And thereby burying God, as the reality of creation, with our the reality-labeling words of our conditioned mind's, matrix of allusions.

So this personal blog post is essentially about humanity's linguistically confused sense of reality, and resurrecting God, aka the reality of creation, and understanding the simple truth about human languages, cryptically described in the Bible. After so many years of exploring the implicit—suggested but not directly stated—meanings of a Biblical treatise on the human condition. Or how the first book and the last book of the Christian Bible, disguise a simple truth about our human perceptions of reality. That is inherent in the tree of knowledge we all call language. As I write the preface to a book about the Jesus story's spiritual diagnosis of humanity, and the personal nature of spiritual self diagnosis and realized being. 

And the simple truth that the recursive nature of language makes us all feel like we are more conscious of reality, than we actually are. As the subconsciously orchestrated nature of our every behavior, sees us fail to notice the way we simultaneously describe and disguise reality, with reality-labeling words. A simple truth you can attest to, by looking at your hands and asking yourself; "how" is the word hands, making me consciously aware of the reality of my hands? As you see the surface-level reality of your hands, that is being received by the biological reality of your eyes. Those biological organs of consciousness, of the biologically conceived creature that you are. As you find yourself performing a spiritual self-diagnosis, of your own reality.

Because you were simultaneously breathing as you asked yourself this question about the relationship between the recursive nature language and your own reality. Performing a spiritual self-diagnosis, even if you are unaware that the root meaning of the words; spirit, spiritual, and spirituality, is Breath. While in the context of the simple truths that lead us towards realized being, please consider and contemplate:

(At their core, the words spirit, spiritual, and spirituality all trace their etymological roots back to the physical act of breathing.

Spirit: Originates from the Latin noun spiritus. Its literal root meaning is "a breathing," "breath," or "the breath of life". It is derived from the Latin verb spirare, which simply means "to breathe".

Spiritual: Derived from the Latin adjective spiritualis, which was built upon the word spiritus. In its original historical context (particularly in early Christian writings translating the Greek pneuma and Hebrew ruach for breath/spirit), it meant "of or concerning the spirit". Originally, it was meant to contrast with "flesh"—describing a person or thing animated or influenced by divine breath.

Spirituality: Comes from the Late Latin noun spiritualitas (via French), also rooted in spirare. Historically, it referred to a state of living oriented toward the divine spirit, but it has since evolved in modern usage to encompass an individual's personal quest for meaning, inner life, and connection to something larger than themselves.

Throughout ancient languages—including Greek and Hebrew—the concepts of wind, breath, and the unseen driving force of life were deeply intertwined.) A Google AI Overview

Humanity's Reification Redemption Challenge

 You live in a deranged age—more deranged than usual—because despite 

great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea

of who he is or what he is doing. — Walker Percy

As a baby-boomer of post world war two conception this image reminds me of Pink Floyd’s song Another Brick in the Wall and contemplating how my beliefs were built up from infancy. Along with the memory of an old monk saying “words are not reality and only experience reveals the nature of being.” As well as Socrates’ “true knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” And writing this paragraph I'm singing “we need education to thrive, not just survive,” in harmony with the remembered melody of Pink Floyd’s song.

The Walker Percy quote heads the list of quotations opening the epilogue of Iain McGilchrist’s challenging book with its apt subtitle; Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World. While this chapter/post title, Humanity’s Reification Redemption Challenge reflects the idea that human history will repeat itself until we all notice how our unmaking of the world is caused by a conscious reification-fallacy.

Suggesting we need a synthesis of knowledge to increase our depth of understanding and awareness of the unseen reality of our body and the cosmos we inhabit. While inside my skull Pink Floyd song-line “we don’t need no education” has become “we don’t need no reification.” As I build on the last chapter/post idea that humanity needs a perceptual wisdom revolution to face mounting global challenges and save itself from itself.

A Perceptual Wisdom Revolution

 

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we
really believe in, and those we never think to question. ― Orson Scott Card

Orsan Scott Card’s comment sums up the way I began self-questioning beliefs about my reality while reading neuroscience accounts of nervous system function back in 2007. The calendar year concept of space-time that in hindsight, was the beginning of trying to understand my reality from the inside-out. The period of my life when I started to make sense of experiences of being the earth turning in space, as a visceral challenge to my consciousness.

A challenge that, in hindsight, has always been the need for a re-adaptation of my mind towards a more heart-felt  and embodied sense of reality. Which I now understand as the birth-right challenge expressed in the cryptic clues of ancient wisdom symbols and stories. Like the symbolic image of family life within the horizons of the Aten and Jesus upon a metaphorical cross of space-time.

I believe the intuition in Bob Marley’s revolution solution idea sums up the synchronous reality of human history. Just I believe in our innate capacity for developing a higher consciousness involving deeper insights and understandings of reality. As I continue to wrestle with two cryptic sayings of an old Buddhist monk in Thailand, “Words are not reality?” ― “Only experience reveals the nature of being?”