The Peripatetic Philosopher ponders:

We are oblivious, but why?

An Exchange

JAMES R. FISHER, JR., Ph.D.

© November 28, 2017

A READER WRITES:

I just looked up these facts:

The earth rotates at 1000mph.

The earth moves around the sun at 67,000mph.

The solar system moves through the Milkyway  at 514,000mph.

The galaxy moves through the universe at 483,000mph.

All that speed, and we don’t feel any of it nor are we physically aware. In the same way we are unaware of an infinite number of things that we do not know.  I was driving back to Harbour Island tonight with our grandchildren through downtown Tampa.  I saw all these little people looking small against the towering buildings.  I think we need to spend more time realizing that we are no different from the ants that build their homes.  That we are fragile and just as vulnerable as the dinosaurs or any other living thing.  Instead we create these grandiose notions of being created by a god, but if you don’t believe in the god they have created then you have to die.  How insane all our actions on the world stage appear in the relation to the vast universe where we are a blip.

Klaus

DR. FISHER REPLIES:

Klaus,

This is very interesting, as well as spectacular.  It caused me to be reminded of some three things -- beyond our consciousness -- that I've learned from mythologist Joseph Campbell and archetype Karl Gustave Jung, and beyond.  Forgive me for desiring to build on what you have said as this has both frustrated and exhilarated me in that we are like ants largely clueless but yet imbued with something if not God like, important in its mythic presence as it dictates largely who and what we are and how we behave.  Rather than enlarge upon this, I will reference works that may prove interesting to you, and share them and your startling references with my readers. 

The first has to deal with the interesting parallel between the rhythm of the human heartbeat and that of the universe:

The connection between heart and Universe is better understood when we consider that our heart beats 72 times per minute on average or 4,320 times per hour. It beats 8,640 times in two hours, which is a factor of the 86,400 seconds in a day. Right away, we get the feeling that the heart is connected to time. The heart is also connected to an even larger scale of time. Every 72 years, from our perspective, the fixed stars move by one-degree in a parade of the constellations known as the Precession of the Equinoxes. It takes 25,920 years for the constellations to complete a full circle (72 x 360) also referred to as the Great Year. When we multiply the Great Year (25,920 years) by a factor of the heart (7.2) we arrive at the speed of light (99.82%). The speed of light squared is the fundamental definition of energy according to Einstein. The heart, therefore, is rhythmically connected to both time and space or ‘space time.’ This gives us a better sense of how the heart knows what space time knows. The heart’s connection to space time and beyond is one way to explain how people know a friend is about to call before the phone rings.

The second has to deal with consciousness.

I have touched on this with my comparison of personality (something invented or acquired) with essence (something owned or part of our DNA) which goes to the truth of what you are saying, which is how totally unconscious we are in terms of our behavior in this fishbowl of life in which we struggle:

The heart’s knowing has come under scientific scrutiny. Experiments by Dean Radin demonstrate the heart’s ability to ‘know’ and cause physiological changes ‘before’ a significant event occurs. This is similar to animals taking protective measures ‘before’ an earthquake or a tsunami arrives (I have equated this to the power of intuition and the power of the subtext of life).

If the heart knows an important event is about to happen before it actually happens then our concept of time and space must be reconsidered. It suggests that we live in a holographic universe as physicist David Bohm suggests. It also puts the heart at the center of ‘knowing’ and being connected to an intelligence that lies outside our brain, perhaps in the field of essence.

The realization of our true essence happens when our personality becomes passive and essence becomes active.

It requires a loosening of our grip on what we believe about ourselves: our ego-identity that is tangled up with other’s expectations. Untangling our essence from our personality requires conscious awareness of our conditioned behavior. This is not a simple task as most of our conditioned responses are both habituated and subconscious. Since heart-consciousness is connected to our essence, it can help bring our subconscious patterns to light, thereby helping us integrate and transform them.

Mostly, our latent personalities want to be heard and understood. They are largely the personalities that arise in response to events where an emotion is not fully acknowledged or contradictory impulses are not fully integrated within our conscious and unconscious minds. Unfortunately, because of the unconscious aspect of our personalities, reintegration does not occur by thinking about it logically. It requires a process over time. It is a process that is more like a journey, where the unconscious aspects of ourselves work behind the scenes to create external events that shake our foundation enough to make us question ourselves and our behavior.

The motivators of change work together in a mysterious yet intelligent archetypal fashion. It is as if that part of us that seeks change elicits an energetic pattern that works dynamically in a triangular pattern. The first manifestation of this triad is the “Issue” or the ‘thing’ that is causing us upset or discomfort. The part of us that is experiencing the “Issue” is the personality aspect that was targeted to undergo transformation. The second component is the “Obstacle,” which allows the contradictory personalities that were stirred up in the Issue to interact. The third aspect is the “Action” necessary to bring about transformation (change and growth).  See illustration below.

The mediator between the three dynamics is the heart. If we tap into heart-consciousness we can allow our innate knowing to guide us through the labyrinth of our mind’s contradictory impulses. The heart is available to help us identify cognitively the limiting belief or negative behavior pattern we have habituated. The heart can also guide us to the right action and the new behavioral pattern we need to adopt in order to bring about the change we desire.

How to ask the heart for guidance is easier than we may think. The process of Scalar Heart Connection utilizes synchronicity and consequently is similar in that aspect to the I-Ching. The difference is in how Scalar Heart Connection utilizes number as a matrix of informative statements that identify the specifics of the triad dynamisms. This is accomplished when we tap into trusting our heart and asking our heart to show us a number related to the information we need related to the Issue at hand. The heart will guide us through the Obstacle as well as the Action we need to take to modify the resonance pattern into one that is entirely integrated and connected with what our heart truly desires.

When we connect to heart-consciousness we tap into the wellspring of love. When the spirit of love flows through us unimpeded by repressed emotions and negative thinking, we become a channel for spirit to manifest in the world. As a channel for the spirit of love, what we create and who we are becomes a monument to spirit, standing as a metaphor to what is true and whole within our authentic Self (essence).

Now, the third involves Joseph Campbell's (1904 - 1987) audio/video (and also in print) of THE POWER OF MYTH -- MASKS OF ETERNITY that were conducted with Bill Moyers. 

My reference is specifically to Episode 6, which I find to my delight is available on the Internet.

Campbell, Irish American and born a Roman Catholic, a former track star and an Olympian Gold Medal winner, has been a favorite of mine for years. His THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES (1968) traces the archetypal hero -- call it "God" if you like -- through nearly every culture on earth. Campbell is not trying to sell anything but to record everything he has encountered. He expands on this theme in THE MYTHIC IMAGE (1974).

What I have learned is that reason is not enough for us to deal with the eccentricities of life; that as Eric Hoffer pointed out so brilliantly, planet earth is a hostile planet and not conducive to man. Consequently, and Genesis reminds us of this, man has felt he has not only had to conquer this hostile planet but to dominate it and to carve his own image and likeness into its unfeeling stone.

The Triad Dynamism of Archetypes 

If you will forgive me for all this, it is a result of my struggling with how to tell my story of WORK WITHOUT WORKERS as man has -- to my mind -- developed and used his consciousness to the point that he is not only redundant on planet earth but irrelevant. Earth will survive very much without man once only mechanical monsters with the sensitivity of their electronics are all that exists.

Thank you again with apologies for all this.