06.18.11

Hubbard biblio, WHEE, and Bennett’s cosmic energies. And a short sermon

Posted in General at 11:38 am by nemo

Hubbard’s bibliography at her site (check it out for much else): http://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com/con/node/33
You can figure people out from a bibliography, sometimes. I think this one is floundering between New Age metaphysics, and quantum mechanical extravagance.
Books worth reading,…

I note that World History and the Eonic Effect, which holds the secret to ‘conscious evolution’, but never uses the term, will never make it onto such a list, or be read by the celebrity types who think they have resolved evolution for the New Age movement with crap about evolutionary spirituality, now with Andrew Cohen trying to make ‘evolution’ guru private property. No wonder Darwinists batten down the hatches.
We have commented on the misuse of the term ‘evolution’ in New Age circles many times here. The appropriation of the term by such as Blavatsky and Gurdjieff was never sound, and the result in the New Age movement is mostly confusion.
Still, as noted, I should not be too harsh: the question of the evolution of consciousness remains the great obstacle to a real science of evolution, and the ‘conscious evolution’ crowd is doing their bit here. The term ‘conscious evolution’ appears in Ouspensky, as a diatribe against the mechanization of consciousness, real ‘evolution’ is somehow ‘conscious’. But is that true: the greater field of ‘evolution’ is quite mechanical. Is the term ‘evolution’ right here at all?
One problem with this notion is that it requires someone like homo erectus to do ‘conscious evolution’ to become homo sapiens. Doubt it, frankly. I think the consciouness of homo sapiens had to have been a cosmic gift, as a starter yeast.
J.G. Bennett has an interesting take here: his ‘consciousness’ is a cosmic energy at the bottom rung of four such: consciousness, creativity, unitive and a twelfth at the end of the series. Basically the twelve correspond to matter, life, translife (to avoid, as Bennett wishes, the term ‘spiritual’). The point here is to wonder if greater nature would evolve to ‘consciousness’, at the lowest end of the cosmic energies, or whether ‘evolution’ is the right word at all. But, just there, the generalization of the ‘conscious evolution’ idea suggests itself at once.

Unfortunately Bennett’s ideas, here as usual, are dubious from one angle, but cogent from another.

I say this as a reminder that the term ‘conscious’ means different things to different people and is not really understood by anyone, and its usage turns into its opposite, a very bad state of affairs.

The correct understanding of evolution here cannot be appropriated by gurus, or even enlightened buddhas. The evolution in this range is a mystery beyond human knowing, so far. So be wary of gurus (Gurdjieff was the worst) who invent the pretense that the ‘esoteric few’ knew about evolution all along, and are the repositories of wisdom here. The idea of evolution, although it began to appear in the Axial Age, is a modern discovery, that of deep time and the fossil record (not the same as Darwinism!). The fossil records says nothing about the evolution of consciousness.
Something at a higher level is required to understand all this.
Nevertheless the potential of human self-consciousness (to revert to our alternate terminology) is an evolutionary outcome, and its realization is therefore within the evolutionary field. But I think it is dubious to consider that spritual practices are going to create an evolutionary effect or future man. They may create enlightenment beyond evolution in particular individuals, but the real evolutionary physiology of a future man able to manifest higher consciousness is not going to result from the guru games we see at present. Noone really knows how the human system really works, much of it being unobservable. It is a hidden aspect of greater Nature, unknown to us. And the emergence of homo sapiens is quite veiled from us, having occurred most probaly in a fast sequence of evolutionary transformation somewhere in Africa.

Still, the conscious evolution discourse contains some suggestive potential ideas, something the ‘stripped bare’ eonic model could use to make it clearer. But ‘conscious evolution’ seems to not work quite right in its current form.
Frankly, as noted: I find it hard to see how homo erectus could have evolved ‘consciousness’ at all via any scenario imaginable to us in the absence of the facts. The problem is that we don’t understand ‘consciousness’ in ourselves, and can’t talk sensibly about its evolution, the more so since we have no facts. I think homo sapiens was a strange case of a Faust, next to the placid homo erectus who never wrought havoc on his environment, with the power of consciousness appearing like an explosion in a sudden interval of transformation. The result has been the ecologically unstable Planetary Mess created by ‘conscious’ Mr. homo sapiens.

Repent, the end is nigh. Watch, for ye know not…

Chopra, Deepak (2006) Life After Death: The Burden of Proof

Garreau, Joel (2005) Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means to Be Human

Glenn, Jerome & Gordon, Theodore (2006) 2006 The State of the Future
Paperback with CD-ROM
*Enclosed CD contains over 5,400 pages of research behind this print edition, plus the Millennium Project’s nine years of cumulative research and methods.

Head, Marian & Hubbard, Barbara Marx (2009) The Suprasexual rEvolution: A Radical Path to 2012 and Beyond

Krone, Bob (2006) Beyond Earth: The Future of Humans in Space
Apogee Books Space Series

Kurzweil, Ray & Grossman, Terry (2004) The Fantastic Journey: Live Long Enough to Live Forever

Laszlo, Ervin (2006) Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos: The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality
Inner Traditions
Presents a revolutionary new theory that bridges the divide between science and spirituality.

Laszlo, Ervin (2006) The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads

Lietaer, Bernard (2002) The Future of Money

Lipton, Bruce H. (2005) The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles

Marion, Jim (2004) The Death of the Mythic God: The Rise of Evolutionary Spirituality
A fascinating account of the achievement of Christ consciousness in the evolutionary context.

O’Murchu, Diarmuid (2004) Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics.
A Crossroad Book
A brilliant description of a post-Christian theology that honors science and the whole creation.

Walsh, Neale Donald (2006) Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends

Woolf, V. Vernon () Holodynamics: How to Develop and Manage Your Personal Power

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